​Blog 586 – 03.29.2017

The Connection

When many of us were children we discover the ingenious communication device that may even predate Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone – The two tin cans and string telephone. How fascinating it was to hear the voice of your best bud on the other end of that tight string and to feel that tug and to know someone who cared was at the other end of that string. Some years ago I bought a copy of Frank Sinatra’s Best Hits and fell in love with many of his songs that were loved and well known to previous generations. One of my favorites is, “I’ve Got The World On A String.” I will share a few words:

“I’ve got the world on a string sitting on a rainbow
Got the string around my finger
Lucky me, can’t you see I’m in love.”

I wrote in a blog yesterday that the term being “In love” has a much broader meaning to me than it does to many folks. I think it is just as important to love widely as it is deeply and that all love starts first in your own heart where it was put by Love Him/Herself. That is where we feel that irresistible tug. One of the great thrills of my childhood was kite flying. I can still remember the first time that I got a kite so high in the sky that it was hidden by the clouds but I could still feel the tug on the string. I knew that kite and I were still connected. I was assured by the tug.

Have you felt the tug of connection lately? You know it is one of ego’s greatest lies (Our own ego and the ego of others) that we are alone, own our own. We are not for we are connected to God, everyone, and all there is. That is just another was of saying your Higher Self or the Universe. Insanity is believing that we are disconnected. Prayer, meditation, and thinking are really just getting still for a moment, still enough to feel the tug and be reminded that we are connected not just to something higher and bigger than ego but to everything.

Ole Blue Eyes had it so right we have indeed got the world on a string sitting on a rainbow…

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White