We Are A Web. Will We Protect It?

I walked to my car Monday morning. The massive spider web and large spider on the rearview mirror was a reminder I hadn't driven anywhere over the weekend.

And also, that I needed to wash my car.

So I drove up the road and treated my car to an all the works carwash.

To be honest, and exposing my lack of concern for all things spiders, I never thought another thing about that web and that spider. Not before or after the wash.

Not until yesterday...

I was driving up I-95. Doing something in the 'near vicinity' of the 70 MPH speed limit. I looked over to my rearview mirror, and there, to my shock, was a remnant of that massive web and that same spider.

How? How on earth did they survive the torrential water and chaotic spinning brushes and the massive hurricane force drying winds at the end of that car wash?

And it struck me, I was headed to Fredericksburg to help lead a training largely about the power of human connection. We are indeed wired to be for one another a web. One giant web. And that web, our home.

But are we?

Are we a web?

A home?

In the midst of the storms, have we washed away or doubled down on protecting our own? And who, exactly, do we most days consider 'our own'?

Are we web builders or web destroyers?

When it comes to the spider, I know that answer quite clearly now. Nothing short of an apocalypse is taking down that web.

As for man, and OUR web, maybe I am not so clear.

The spider can clearly spin resilience into silk. Can we spin love into something strong enough to hold us all together?

And do we have anything close to the will of the spider to do so?