Touch

One of the most powerful senses is the sense of touch. To feel the contact of another person enter your realm through touch can be exhilarating or alarming. For example holding hands is one of the most basic and intimate practices of touch. Think about it, lovers hold hands as they walk idly through evening sessions talking for hours. Friends greet each other with a signature handshake unbeknownst to any outsider. Spouses grip each other's hands as they brace the woman through child birth. And though formal, a handshake introduces you to a new employer or constituent. 

 

Touch has to be one of the most interdependent senses we employ. With these touches we impress ourselves physically into someone else's lives. Touch can also be volatile, like when someone physically abuses someone, when a child touches a hot flame, or unwelcomed fingers that probe unwelcomed places. If physical touch has the ability to leave such great impressions on our lives, how much more does emotional touch intimately dive into the seas of our souls.

 

If we are cautious to be ever so careful in a physical plane where we can see the damage or elation by touch. Shouldn't we be even more careful with emotional touch, where we are not always able to see the repercussions of our actions? I pray that you touch each other's lives in a way that doesn't damage, but rather fosters healing. A way that doesn't gain intimacy through dissimulation but fosters an atmosphere of welcome through honest intentions. Touch.