We’re All in This Together

I don’t know much about fixing cars, but here is what I know as a person that has driven many not so new cars in her lifetime. You can’t fix just one brake line. A new brake line is stupendous, does its job perfectly, but its newness will add pressure to  the whole brake system and that will cause the other older lines to crack and break. It is the connectedness of the whole system; all the lines need to be replaced or all the lines need to be strong, or all the lines need to be able to hold up under pressure. It is not going to work for just one of us on a team or in a family to be strong and content and well. There is a connectedness in groups of people. Or looked at another way, if the pressures and stresses pile up on one team member, the others will soon feel the strain and start to crack. So, I wonder if we can be mindful of what load we are carrying, what we can ask for help with, what we need to share, what we need to carry on our own so as not to burden others already under pressure. Sometimes in this fast-paced world we are rushed and barely have time to think about what we are trying to do. Whenever we can, we do need to take a minute to reflect on the whole system and do we all still have the strength and wholeness to brake together to not break together and make good things happen.