Are You Feeling Disconnected?
Most of us want stronger friendships, healthier relationships, and a more secure sense of belonging. But stress, disappointment, and conflict can cause us to become more guarded than we'd like to be. Sometimes we lose trust in other people; sometimes we lose touch with ourselves; and sometimes we simply forget what it feels like to trust at all.
This short quiz is designed to help you identify where you are in your heart. Are you feeling defensive and disconnected? Or are you feeling open-hearted, grounded, and ready to connect with the people around you? There are no right or wrong answers. This is simply an opportunity to pause, reflect, and discover your next step in becoming a better friend, neighbor, and community member.
TAKE THE QUIZ
Are You Feeling Disconnected?
Most of us want stronger friendships, healthier relationships, and a more secure sense of belonging. But stress, disappointment, and conflict can cause us to become more guarded than we'd like to be. Sometimes we lose trust in other people; sometimes we lose touch with ourselves; and sometimes we simply forget what it feels like to trust at all.
This short quiz is designed to help you identify where you are in your heart. Are you feeling defensive and disconnected? Or are you feeling open-hearted, grounded, and ready to connect with the people around you? There are no right or wrong answers. This is simply an opportunity to pause, reflect, and discover your next step in becoming a better friend and neighbor.
TAKE THE QUIZOpen your heart with a poem...
For Love In a Time of Conflict
When the gentleness between you hardens
And you fall out of your belonging with each other,
May the depths you have reached hold you still.
When no true word can be said, or heard,
And you mirror each other in the script of hurt,
When even the silence has become raw and torn,
May you hear again an echo of your first music.
When the weave of affection starts to unravel
And anger begins to sear the ground between you,
Before this weather of grief invites
The black seed of bitterness to find root,
May your souls come to kiss.
Now is the time for one of you to be gracious,
To allow a kindness beyond thought and hurt,
Reach out with sure hands
To take the chalice of your love,
And carry it carefully through this echoless waste
Until this winter pilgrimage leads you
Towards the gateway to spring.
By John O’Donohue from To Bless the Space Between Us
