Healing happens when we are able to connect through vulnerability and let the person we have connected with, heal us. Sit with me in my dark place and your light will brighten my cave. Let me know I am not alone. Hear me. See me. Let peace and love connect us. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”John 14:27 KJV
****”Attachment science tells us that connection with others is not only a source of safety to go to, it offers a base that is a continuing source of strength throughout life.”
“Safe connection EMPOWERS us. Being able to trust others – reach for them – is expansive for the self.” – Dr Sue Johnson******
There is almost a magic that happens when connection happens. I’m not sure why we act like Jesus didn’t create our feelings and emotions. Some speak of them as though they are an enemy, when in fact they were created by Jesus. We were created in His image and likeness. He felt what we feel, and experienced what we do. He understood hurt and frustration. He understood shame and was unjustly blamed. He experienced prejudice and hate. But He sought out a connection with people. He connected with specific people in different ways. Peter, James, and John were his closest friends and disciples. They were the ones that were always there. Even then, John was much closer than Peter and James. Everyone forsook Jesus when He was taken, except John. John was always right there. There was a “big brother/father” connection that is undeniable between the two. I have that somewhat with my older brother. We spent most of childhood and young teenage years not liking each other, but now that we are older, I really look up to him and he is almost a father figure to me. I can feel that between Jesus and John. There was a deep connection. Jesus had a deep connection with His mother. A deep connection with Lazarus and his sister Mary. When Lazarus died, even though He knew He was going to raise him from the dead, He still wept. John is one of the men who had the greatest impact on the church. His writing, not coincidently, is also focused the most on love and how we are to be connected to each other and Jesus. He recorded these words of Jesus, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abideth in me, the same bringeth forth much fruit…” Connection. One of the definitions for the word abideth is; to remain as one.
Connection is Strength.
Connection is Healing.
Connection is Life.
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jareddoran 