Relationship. It's the key to everything.

This video popped up in my Facebook feed today.  (Thanks, Isaac for posting it!).  I have to tell you, I got a little misty.  Check it out:

http://www.aarp.org/disrupt-aging/stories/ideas/info-2016/what-is-old-video.html

Here's what got me right in the feels.  So much of our perceptions and preconceived notions are based in untruth because we don't know the truth.  The only way to know the truth is to experience it, to form a relationship with it and then to allow the truth alter and change us.  This video shows us all how beautiful that encounter can be.  These "younger" folks had thoughts and feelings about what "old" is but had those wiped away with a simple shared experience.

So much of our fear, anxiety, and hate can be destroyed in the same fashion.  It's easy for us to hang out, chat, and socialize with people we like or rather who are like us.  What about with someone who is not like us?  What about those who don't think or act like us?

It makes me think about the political climate today and how it's polarized us.  I think about the folks who will not talk about race and refuse to accept that inequality still exists.  I think about the oppression of women around the world and those who are oblivious to it.  The world is in need of life changing relationships.

In the beginning of our story, God commented that it's not good for man to be alone.  Now any mother will tell you that this is honest truth.  My great grandmother used to have a saying, "If you want something done halfway, send your son.  If you don't want it done at all, send his brother with him."  It's true.  Men need companionship and frankly we need guidance.  What I find interesting is that God was already in relationship before he created us.  He didn't really need a relationship with anyone else.  He was in perfect relationship within the Trinity.  We humans were created as a reflection of that relationship and are invited into it.

It's my belief that through real and honest relationship walls of prejudice, oppression and misunderstanding are broken down.  We can build foundations of a lasting unity and kinship from the pieces.  From the shattered shards of our shared experience, a beautiful mosaic is formed.  That mosaic has the power to change the world.  What a wonderful world that would be.

Hey, it's Day 14!  We're still here!