Morning reflections

I listened to a talk this morning on addiction.  The speaker ended by saying the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, the opposite of addiction is connection.  And I thought how addiction is like sin, in that it separates us from life sustaining relationships – with the Father and with each other. 

Later I read, in a book on redemption, how Jesus descended from a perfect fellowship with the Father and the Spirit to endure every kind of humiliation and pain – for us - so that we could once again have fellowship/connection with the Father.

I think that being created in His image in a sense means we were created for fellowship, for relationship, for an intimacy of souls connecting on a deeper level of understanding and acceptance, a transparency and freedom of knowing and being known.  Our souls are restless for this connection, which only comes through God’s gift of grace poured out at the cross.