CONNECTED

Dock sitting clothed in the hood of a grey filled sky,

Gathered in a reverent silent embrace,

I am at one.

Why do we spend so much of our lives contemplating the fragmented parts of life?  Is it because we rebel against what we perceive is the forced interdependence of our worldly lives?  All those shadowy areas of the daily routine that might reach out and cause us harm.  Yet when we are in the wilderness, we soon are governed by the sense of connection to our surroundings.

Perhaps it is fragmentation that we manufacture, but for what purpose?  How can we bring that natural sense of connection into our daily routine?  How can our daily lives poetically inspire us?  The Bible teaches this is only possible by choosing our responsibility to love as we have been loved, by helping others.  Through the lens of helping we might receive the grace to claim our connection to the most dangerous animal in the wilderness, "The Human Being."

Baden Powell’s second and third Scout laws give us insight into how we might discover the blessing of our connection.  First we must make a decision of loyalty to all of God’s creation, even human beings.  What we claim as duty is like choosing which window we will look through.  When you look through one window, you gain a perspective and become blinded to the perspectives given by looking through other windows. Choose Loyalty Expressed By Helping Others!

“There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. Ephesians 4: 4-6