Monthly Motivation-Disconnected, But Never Alone
Disconnected, But Never Alone There is a photo I love of two gorillas sitting side by side, their backs to the camera, as though they are quietly looking out at the world together. A mother and her baby. Just the two of them, present with each other, needing nothing else in that moment. Underneath it I wrote two simple words: Better Together. I keep coming back to that image because it captures something I think so many of us are quietly longing for right now. Connection. Presence. The feeling that we are not doing this alone. When the Connection Breaks The last two sermons I listened to both touched on the same theme, and it stopped me in my tracks. The message was this: many of us are walking around feeling deeply disconnected, and we may not even have the words for it. So what does disconnected actually mean? Disconnected: Having a connection broken. To feel separated, cut off, isolated, alone. When I read that definition I felt it in my bones, because I have lived it. ...