by Michelle Pereira.
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the author's notion of connectedness that seems to break the material boundaries of space and time? Can you share a personal story of a time you experienced "heart and soul bonds" with someone else? What helps you grow in "heart and soul bonds" in your daily life?
When I was a nursing student (back in the early 80s), it was my gift of "connecting" that got the attention of my instructors. Not gifted in the areas consistent with most seeking higher education, my ability to touch hearts and souls with understanding and HOPE, kept me in the game. We are ONE body in Christ ...
Heart and especially soul connections go beyond the material boundaries of space and time. Our unconscious or spirit or soul or essence is beyond space and time, and it is at that level that our most significant connections with one another occur. At that level, real me meets real you. I have experienced "heart and soul bonds" in intimate -- and I don't mean sexual -- relating. Such relating is personal, open, and honest. In such relating, we are vulnerable and trusting. In such relating, we are outside space and time. All connections with others stay part of us forever, some only to a very minor extent, and the heart and soul bonds stay profoundly with us. What helps me grow in "heart and soul bonds" is that they are fulfilling and enlivening, they feed a hunger in me, and they make life worthwhile. I'm addicted.