"Humanity is like an enormous spider web, so that if you touch it anywhere, you set the whole thing trembling... Our lives are linked together."
-Frederick Buechner
There's been so much loss in my life lately. The news of an acquaintance's suicide is adding extra weight and heartache. As I talked on the phone to my dad today, talking business and mentioning Mom with forced casualness, I glanced out the window and saw this orb web. I haphazardly snapped a photo through the window glass with one hand as I held the phone with the other and continued to converse with my father. Providence saw fit to let me capture what I saw. And as I look at it now, I contemplate on what slender threads our lives and fortunes hang! But like spider silk (which is 5 times stronger than the same weight of steel) we are each shining, sturdy, and hold so much potential and beauty despite our corresponding fragility and capacity for destruction. Please remember that. Let love be the invisible thread that binds us and never doubt your worth or potential!
