When you are looking for an image to express something you want to say, it can often be so allusive… nothing seems to fit. Then suddenly you see it! Indeed it is true, ‘ A picture is worth a thousand words’. There is an innate factor within us all that wants to belong to something. We enter life belonging as we respond naturally in that filial relationship to our parents as a son or daughter. We touch, we feel the emotions of contact. LIfe is all about being linked to something, we do not function well in isolation, we are all meant to be part of the whole. The poem ‘No man is an island’ also seems to capture some of this idea: –

No man is an island entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main.

If a clod washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a
promontory were. As if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were,

Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne (1572-1631)

In life we anchor ourselves to something, to have a sense of belonging. Like we are adrift in the cosmos desperately needing to find something where we can truly discover our identity and feel that we are part of the whole again.

To me, God himself is the whole! Our need is to find our way back and discover that we are each an important part, with a special role to play. Like one piece of a giant jigsaw still to find its place and complete the picture. To belong to Jesus Christ is to suddenly find we fit, we now belong, we are part of the whole!