Simple Ingredients

It was a simple day today, simple thoughts, nothing complex.  As I observed things around me, people around me, our methods, our mannerisms I began to understand the various components that are all apart of  several components -the need to relate.  I took a brief moment to take back a few movies that I had rented over the past week from a local library of which I love to frequent, it's quiet there, you can think, you can create, you can enjoy it's simplicity.  And to boot, this particular library was in the process of reaching it's 3/4 completion point in order to expand the gifts of many who write, think and create -from the very youngest mind in age, to minds of seasoned age, experience and wisdom (as well as those who are not so wise, at least they are in the right place to take on wisdom!).

As I browsed the movie section again to choose something simple, I noticed one common theme among a majority of the movies (and not anyone in particular, mind you), and they all began crying out from their alphabetical places on the shelves ..."relationship, relationship, relationship."  Interesting, very interesting I noticed.  Have you ever noticed that before?  Almost every shelf from A to Z posessed at least one movie dealing with the interaction and/or communication between male and female, and some romantic theme bleeding desperately the need to "relate" with one another on some level of life.  Such a simple ingredient, yet one that's so full of complexity, passion, intrigue, emotion, sentiment, expectancy, fulfillment and or heartbreak. How profound.  Some of the most basic elements of life comprise a simple ingredient and our need to be aware of it.  Without it none of us would have a need to reach out to someone around us, in our community, in our worship, in business, with family, with friends, even in acquaintances or newly found friends.  But why does it speak so loudly? So poignantly? Yet it makes up at least 85% of who we are, the movie shelves certainly validated that for me today.  I had to look for quite a long time to find a clean comedy amongst the echos of relationship themes, speaking with such an unmistakable presence.   If you take just a moment to close your eyes and imagine away all the technology, all the modern conveniences around you now -life still pushes out a simple ingredient without complexity that we all can partake of in it's most simple form. That ingredient is simply -love.  And love is none of the things we think it really is, it simply is.