OK, so I am a connectivity neophyte.  I am fascinated by 'strange attractors', chaos, emerging realities and notions held by Genesis, St. Paul, MLK, Jr. and a host of others:  all creation is of a whole, there is no unessential part of the body, we are all part of an inextricable web of connectivity.  Yet I am finding a new region of the connectivity frontier: Facebook.

Goaded by my daughters to have a Facebook page (albeit with some ambivalence, 'Dad, if folks your age are on there, well...'  they were gentle) I am finding one more example of just how connected we all are.  Colleagues, old friends, friends across the country and the globe are all part of this human network.  Pictures, sayings, humor, fan clubs are among the things that generate more contacts, more connections. 

I am not sure there is any way  to deny what was denied so early in the story of Cain and Abel- we are all connected, we are one, there are no 'isolated' actions, 'no man/woman is an island', we can not- no matter how hard we try- cut ourselves off from one another; not spiritually, biologically, even 'cyberly' we are all one.  We can certainly grieve, bring dis-ease to relationships, but cut them off?  That is a fantasy.

Perhaps St. Paul understood quantum, emergent, connectivity when he wrote, "I am convinced that nothing in heaven or on earth (not our actions, not powers) nor any other created thing can separate us from the love of God."  Included in our 'web' is the Spirit, 'in whom all things exist and have their being'.  

Thus I have found an excuse for time spent on Facebook: I am simply participating in spiritual reality, enacting my convictions, living out my connectivity to the cosmos.  Well, that is as good a justification as I can muster at this time. 

"That all may be one, O God, as you are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us..I in them and you in us..." Jesus

Blessed Advent

Todd Donatelli