Recovery

The inner journey is also about the recovery of ourselves and recovery from our losses.  Our deepest needs were never met growing up and can never be met in the externals or circumstances of the world around us.  So, our spiritual connectedness also becomes a source for recovery of our emotional life, a healing for our brokenness, and a way for our deepest needs and most critical needs to be fully met.

No one grew up with perfect affirmation, security, sense of belonging, a deep sense of being fully loved for who we are, or a full acceptance of our truest self.  Our parents may have been among the best (or not), but none of them were perfect.  As a result, these deep needs continue to cry out.  We were created for eternity.  This means, we will always long for that which is perfect.  Our deep needs desire to be met perfectly so that we feel most fully connected, loved, embraced, affirmed, and appreciated.  These are not selfish needs.  They arise out of the deepest parts of who we are spiritually and emotionally.

So spiritual connectedness is bringing of our broken parts to a God who can perfectly heal, touch, and meet the deepest needs of our soul.  It is about a recovery of our splintered, broken self and an integration of ourselves with ourselves and with God.