On Connecting and Belonging
What's wrong? "I feel disconnected." I hear this too often, and lately, I've felt it. It is code for: "I'm lonely", "I'm not sure what I'm doing here", "Do people even care?", "Do people notice?" We all want to belong. I believe we have been created to desire connectedness and to feel we fit somewhere. Where we all go wrong, is that we always seem to have a propensity to look for something/someone/somewhere to connect to and belong to aside from the only answer: God. For some reason, we can sing "God is my all in all" and "God is the only one that satisfies". While we sing these songs in church, at the same time, inside us, we could be grumbling and feeling 'let down' or left out by people in the church. Although I do believe one of the roles of church is to embrace everyone and to ultimately LOVE (See 1Cor 12 and 13 in context), there is a danger in assessing the heal