dailydatewithgod

It is clear we need to have a sense of belonging to a particular group whether it is family, society, or some other construct of a group in order to survive.  As independent as we think of ourselves, we are actually much more reliant on others than we like to admit.  It is in our design.  It is not a flaw that we feel a sense of loss and confusion when we are not able to claim to belong to something.  We are born into a  particular family group and culture.  There are the groups our parents belong to which usually means we belong to them since we cannot get around on our own the first many years of our lives.  All of these places of belonging give us a sense of where we fit.  As we mature and can make choices about where we belong, we are given the opportunity to asses if the places of belonging with which we identify are fitting to us or places we are trying to fit into.  It is only natural to want to stick with what is familiar.  But over time if we are working so hard to fit into something that is not fitting for the truth of who we are we lose ourselves.  God did not design us with a sense of needing to belong just so we could force a fit that isn’t there and squash the truth of who we are designed to be.  There is a sense of loss when letting go of the familiar but the more we are willing to embrace what is fitting for us and the core of ourselves, the more we are able to live and breathe and be.  It takes courage to look at our family, society, and various groups to which we belong, acknowledge their role in our lives and see with truth where we fit with them and where we need to stop trying fitting ourselves to them.  The more we grow in relationship with God and with our own hearts the clearer the path to aligning with what is fitting for us we will be able to do and be the person we are called to be.