...the bubble

What is a bubble?
Well Wikipedia tells me this, "a globule of one substance encased in another, usually air in a liquid."

This makes me think about the bubbles we blew as kids out of our dish soap and water mixtures. What makes the bubble succeed is the substance that separates what is on the inside from what is on the outside. I have been seeing a lot of these bubbles in my life over the past several months. No not soapy bubbles...I have been seeing Christian Bubbles or the (enter denomination, enter worship style, etc...) Bubbles. Now again this is nothing new but it is something I have been wrestling with and noticing a lot lately.

This Human Bubble is similar to a soap bubble. We have someone or a group of someones on the inside separated from someone or a group of someones on the outside. Simple enough. But what is it that actually separates those on the inside from those on the outside? Hmm... Well it could be many different things that actually separate the inside from the outside. Bubbles are all around us, in high school there were bubbles for athletes, for brainiacs, for artists, for the "popular", for the "nerds", and for Christians (and within this bubble there are more bubbles...pretty strange.) And its not only in schools that we see these bubbles, there is separation all over this world. There are groups and individuals taking themselves out of this society on a daily basis.

But the questions that arise...
How does this happen?
Why does it happen?
Does it make any sense?
Do these bubbles help or hinder?
What are the difficulties when you are on the inside or the outside of a bubble?

Take this information with you, look around and see the bubbles. Where do you see bubbles, how do these bubbles interact with other bubbles? Observe bubbles in your own life, in others lives.

I will finish my thoughts after we have some time to observe...

In closing I would like you to read this prayer from Jesus to his Father...John 17:1-26

Pay close attention to verse 15 and verse 18...