It is easy to feel all alone, in spite of the milling throng. If in that throng there are no sympathizing ears and hearts, no answering chords of harmonious thoughts, the tendency is to feel desolate. It seems overwhelmingly solitary when you are surrounded by people, but no one understands. It is easy to begin feeling left out, and even begin to wonder about your ability to make coherent sense, when you desire to be heard, to be understood and to be able to share ideas and theories, but they fall on deaf ears that cannot hear beyond the bias of their previous thought.
Sometimes, in the effort to plot the next answer we fail to listen to the sentence, or even the heart of the other person, poured out for us in the desire to communicate. Is it possible, today in my quickness to answer, I missed an opportunity to connect with another isolated soul?
When God made man, did He desire to connect with man on a level of intellectual giving of Himself to us? Does He look down on earth with its milling throng and feel lonely for someone who would be interested in "hearing" Him? Are we rushing past, when He tries to draw near to us, seeking for a heart that might want to "know" Him and "understand" Him?
There is often a desire for relational understanding among each other. Yet, I remain unknown. Is that because we were not made for this knowing amongst each other, but to be known by God Himself? Or is this void, this vacancy, a symptom of the brokenness of our relationships?
When I find myself longing after a forgotten garden, I often find myself yearning after the sense of wholeness. I am craving relationships that do not have space and distance in them. I dream of the ability to communicate in ways that express ideas, share dreams and in the sharing of ideas connect me on a deeper level with another.
When I reach toward the glorious day of our Lord's soon returning, I am reaching toward the wholeness of restored relationships and the ability to be known.
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