Connection Is More Than A Lesson We Teach

​I presented yesterday on human connection. How we are wired for it. How we depend on it. How it’s incumbent on us to cultivate it and reach into it for our own health and wellness.

I had my message rehearsed, organized, and ready. My goal was simple: equip people with the science and the importance of connection.

But God had something more in mind.

After the presentation, a woman approached me quietly. She shared that a dear friend of hers had been kidnapped in another country. She’s been living in a constant state of fear and prayer, not knowing how this story will end.

She told me that in the midst of this heaviness, she found herself reaching outward, calling people she hadn’t talked to in a long time, writing messages she would normally leave unsent, letting people back into her heart in places she had once closed off.

She didn’t understand why she was doing it, only that she needed to.

Then she said something that blessed me.

She said she almost didn’t come to my presentation. She didn’t have the emotional space for it. But something nudged her and she came anyway. And in my presentation, she said, she didn’t hear a lecture or a lesson, she heard confirmation.

She said the spirit I presented with spoke to her spirit. It told her that the connections she was forging were not random coping mechanisms, they were holy prompts.

They were rescue ropes pulling her through fear and darkness.

Her story reminded me of something that I think is a good reminder - a good message - for all of us.

Sometimes we think we’re leading with facts, but the Spirit is leading with healing.

Sometimes we go in hoping to raise awareness, but God arrives intending to raise a weary soul.

Sometimes we think we are teaching, when in reality, we are simply delivering mail heaven already wrote.

I spent hours preparing content that I believed was important. Yet what mattered most in that room wasn’t anything I said, it was what one person heard in the quiet places only God speaks.

It’s humbling.

It’s beautiful.

And it’s why I will always keep showing up, not just for the message I bring, but for the message God is bringing through it. Because connection isn’t just something we teach. Connection is something God uses to save us, one unlikely moment at a time.