All Signs Point to Relationship

The word became flesh and dwelt among us, within us, to point us to the importance of relationship. God yearns to know us in close relationship and the flesh, the material, points us inward, the spiritual, to help us realize how important close relationship within humankind is to God. 

Even when humanity could not handle the openness of Christ’s invitation to everyone and welcome all, no matter station or stature, into this divine relationship, God said; you can’t take Me away from you. We are one. I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, from the Gospel of John. 

Relationship was so vitally important to God that crucifixion, what we did to that body of Jesus, was not God’s last word. God is still on the move, seeking us out, sending us an infinite number of invitations so that we never forget God’s yearning to be close to us. 

We see in the resurrection the eternal relationship of God. It was the point all along. God in relationship with us through Jesus, so that all of humanity can see and experience God’s presence. 

Most of us can feel what it is like when relationships are lost, just like Mary as she stood at the foot of the cross while her friend breathed His last. 

Even in our sadness we feel how important deep loving connection is to who we are as human beings. When we lose that connection, it hurts. Even the pain of loss can help us realize how important healthy relationships are to our soul.

All signs, Divine and human alike, point to the importance of healthy relationship with others and ourselves. It may feel overwhelming to think of how to create and sustain healthy relationships. It may not be that complicated after all. If we can only follow the signs in our heart. If only we gaze upon all of creation and see the importance of relationship: the stars with the evening sky, the moon with the sun, the sunrise with the sunset, the rivers and streams with the oceans and so on.

All signs point to relational connection.

What if relationship was easy? What if we could all live into the beauty of seeing another’s innate self-worth? What if we could all live and experience our own innate self-worth? 

What if it is that easy? Just see and value our own humanity so that we can see and value it in others. We may call this the divine spark. That divine spark is what we miss when our loved one is lost. Truly we miss the relational connection. 

Maybe this will help us walk in the world with a stronger sense of empathy and in the empathy, we can see that divine spark in others even as we claim our own self-worth. 

We all know how important relationship is to our overall health and well-being. We can feel it when it is lost and we can feel it when it is good. This may be God’s dream for us all when we hear Jesus saying, that they all be one.

We honor our relationship with God by honoring God’s relationship with all of creation. When this is in harmony, the inner relationship between the material and the spiritual, it is Good News.

Our comfort may come from the deep spiritual knowing, that place we may forget sometimes and loose touch with, that God is the Divine and Eternal relationship. If we really listen and watch, all signs point us to this beautiful, endless relationship.

Can we imagine that?

Can our hearts truly fathom that truth in our soul?

What we most yearn for, a real and every day healthy relationship with ourselves and our God, is the same Divine Yearning back to us from God.

All signs point towards this Holy relationship.