Our hunger to belong is the longing to find a bridge across the distance from isolation to intimacy. Every one longs for intimacy and dreams of a nest of belonging in which one is embraced, seen, and loved. Something within each of us cries out for belonging...Like the tree that puts roots deep into the clay, each of us needs the anchor of belonging in order to bend with the storms and reach towards the light. Like the ocean that returns each time to the same shore, a sense of belonging liberates us to trust fully the rhythm of loss and longing...The sense of belonging also shelters us from the inner infinity which each of us secretly carries...When we belong, we have an outside mooring to prevent us from falling into ourselves.
(Seven Sisters, East Sussex, UK)
No comments:
Post a Comment