Connection

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly,

God is the electricity that surges between them

                                                            Martin Buber

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Who are you?

I am not sure I know, but I’d like to!

I’d like to know what makes you tick

How you think, what you feel

What you a passionate about,

What gets you up in the morning

Who am I?

I’d like you to know!

At least I think I do.

I’d like you to know what I love

What is going on in my monkey brain

What I fear

What hurts

I am not talking about playing it safe here

Being real is never safe

And when two people actually make a connect

That is authentic and vulnerable

It can be rather shocking!

Bzzzzzzt!

Sometimes it stings

Sometimes it hurts

But when the current flows

Something happens

Call it electricity

Call it love

Call it God

And we are transformed

Individually

Together

We are changed from encapsulated egos

Fearful and striving

Into beings bound together by something big

Bigger

That which is immanent and transcendent

Becomes intimate and finite

Incarnate

I and It

Becomes I and Thou

“I” and “me”

Becomes “us”

And Sacred becomes real

In our connection with one another

We don’t need theology

Or ideology

We don’t need earthly power

Or wealth

We don’t need border walls

We don’t need a booming stock market

We need each other

For it is in love of other another

That the kingdom comes