There's nothing like a week with two funerals, a wedding, Halloween celebrations, a community farewell party, a church tea, and several pastoral crises to make a body realize that none of us is an island. Mind you, just now, I'd kind of like to be an island for about three days! But only for three days. For the truth is, we are profoundly connected with and dependent upon each other ... and on the whole, that is good.

Did you ever think about the implications of the fact that as human beings the God in whose image we are created is known to us as a Trinity? Relationship is at the very heart of the nature of God, and that also says something very important about us. None of us is an island. We are not made to live only to ourselves. We are made for relationship, both with God and with each…