ReConnection!

Whew!  We are reconnected.  Our modem  at home broke after ten reliable years.  Its faithful service was certainly a connection that I took for granted until it was gone.  I was not sure for a few days what was causing the problem.  I even priced new computers.  Finally I called the server and the technician immediately pinpointed the modem as the culprit.   We waited for several days for  a new one to be delivered.     I am astonished at how disconnected we were without this one important piece of technology.  So much of our communication  with the far-flung children is through the computer.  Even parent teacher interviews can only be set up on line.

Reconnection.  A great feeling all round.  If only all our connections were always as magically simple as the WiFi.  We all have so many levels of connection that can so easy be broken.  Sometimes these breaks are forever.  Other times just for a season.  Our community is reeling this week as another of our teens committed suicide.  Connections tragically severed. Families bonds so often broken.  Divorces.  Kids removed from homes.  Kids leaving homes.  Brokenness, pain and disconnection are part of our human reality.

  Reconnection may not be possible, but there are always opportunities to grow and learn from even the most tragic pain of bonds broken.  There have been many times that I have not known where to start to make connections.  Often prayer is my first and last hope.  Sometimes I have to let go of one hope for connection in order to find fullness in another.  Sometimes there are other things I can do. Letters written and burned with ashes and heart sent to heaven.  Apologies made.  Special times together arranged.  Tiny steps toward healing started.  I need to ground myself.  Connect with myself and with God.  Listen within for the still small voice among the clanging cacophony of pain.  Sometimes the connections we hope for may not happen. May we all be open to hope for new and surprising connection and growth in other ways.  To somehow reconnect in both the death and life of brokenness and hope.