Like every object and each subject within the cosmos our existence is relational. No human was ever created alone. No human ever came into the world alone, and no human was ever meant to live this life alone (even introverted introverts). You are not a rock, nor are you an island. You will feel pain and everybody hurts sometimes.
Because God is love, life was intentionally engineered to be about individuals thriving in community, not individuals existing as isolated entities. The opening verses of Genesis declare that God is relational. Not only is God in relation with other spiritual beings, but God created humans to also be relational with our Creator and all of creation; particularly other humans.
The myth of the rugged individual overcoming any adversity or adventure alone is just that; a myth. Every person came into this world as a helpless infant. There’s never been an adult pop-up of any kind. Every human entered this world dependent on the consideration of clan and the kindness of strangers.
Even as we grow older and become self-sufficient for our survival and success, we define and develop who we are and who we want to become in relation to other people. Either imitating them, ignoring them or inventing an individual in between them. What we all have in common is that we all are children of God. An irreplaceable seed intended for the time and terrain where the Giver of all life has imbedded you.
The greatest lie evil has ever spoken and continues to communicate is that God doesn’t love you and therefore God cannot be trusted. Evil is always whispering into our hearts to reject Love and put our faith in something other or someone else including ourselves. Than begins the slippery slope to selfishness, the steps to separateness and solitary confinement of the soul. Solitary confinement being the loneliness place even in prison.
Like any ideological cult, isolation of the individual is integral to rupturing their relationships with reality and right relations. Which is why those who create conditions or castoff confronting loneliness are complacent containers that carry cruelty. Love never thrives in isolation unlike evil and egotism; pride and prejudice.
This is why the protocols implemented during Covid were so destructive to the human heart. Loved ones couldn’t say good-bye to those who died or comfort those who were ill. Families and friends couldn’t celebrate life’s milestones and memories with one another. Children were prevented from in-person learning and social development. Suicide increased among the young and mental unhealthiness increased for everyone.
Governmental authorities across the nation even tried to close the outdoors; enjoying sunshine and sand were sinister. We would also later learn that there was no scientific evidence for many of these life disrupting and heart-breaking decisions. A plague of immeasurable loneliness and inestimable isolationism would infect individuals and contaminate communities across the entire world based on opinions and outlooks.
Even though we’re told and sold that we live in the age of connectivity, the real reality is that we are living an endemic of loneliness. Evil excited and encouraged to swell the suffering as we segregate ourselves further from one another. Neighbors are strangers and community is simulated.
When we isolate and insulate ourselves from other human hearts we all suffer. Like every seed, we sprout only when we’re planted in soil that can sustain us. Like every plant, we flourish only when we’re nurtured in a family that can nourish us. Like every harvest, we are fruitful only when we’re fed in a community that can feed us. Loneliness has nothing to share because it’s not connected to Love. A life of love is our normal and natural nature.
A love so great, that the Creator of everything and everyone; including you, requests your presence to participate in this cosmic dance of life. Your life, like mine, made possible because of Love. All our lives made proportionally better when we live in community and right relations with all our brothers and sisters. Learn to live a life of lasting legacy by building bridges across all human hearts.
Peace. God loves you.
If you want to learn more about how my spiritual awakening came to be, you can read about it in Finding God in Vegas: A Gen X Spiritual Awakening; available on Amazon and across all platforms in print or electronic or audio.