To connect is very closely linked to trust.
Being connected is work. Staying connected is even harder. How can begin connecting without different levels of trust in place?
I think everyone desires to be connected, in some way, shape, and/or form. When God created the world, His intention was not for humans to be isolated. Yet, we disconnect ourselves from everyone and everything, usually whenever we get a chance.
We’re always working to get away. Get away from the office, from the kids, from the spouse, from the mall, from the thoughts in your head, from the bad habits, from sin. We need alone time. Time to stop and breathe. Maybe even to smell the roses or just to be still. Despite all that, we still work hard at connecting with someone. Efforts are made to find that one person who truly understands you, who feels you down to your core without saying a word. That person with whom you can have the deepest of conversations, just by looking into their eyes. That person who ignores your appearance, your size, your junk, your everything bad, and just loves you for you.
Problem is that that person is often hard to find. It’s like searching for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Some of us are blessed to find those friends, those connections. Others work hard, put forth effort and hope that things go well. Until our images are shattered.
Part of why it’s hard to connect is because it’s hard to trust. I’m guilty of this. My preference is that you show my yourself first, while I feed little pieces of myself. When I feel comfortable, I share more and more, yet there’s still so much that I guard.
While I may be fooling myself into thinking that I’m “playing it safe”, I’m really just playing. I can’t complain about not being connected if I’m not willing to connect for myself.
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Your turn. Some weeks, I question whether or not 5 minutes is truly long enough. Today, it wasn’t. So, I went a wee bit over, but I did stop myself. Go at it for 5 minutes straight, through all caution to the wind. Click below if you’d like to get “connected” this week.
