An Island Never Cries

“I Am A Rock”
by Simon & Garfunkel

A winters day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
Ive built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship;
friendship causes pain.
Its laughter and its loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
Dont talk of love,
But Ive heard the words before;
Its sleeping in my memory.
I wont disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.


We are not ‘rocks’.
Nor are we ‘islands’.
Rocks may not feel pain,
But we do.
Islands don’t cry,
but we do,
whether we let the tears flow or not.

We are relational beings.
We have a deep-ingrained need for fellowship with others.
That is a fact.
We cannot hide from it,
We cannot escape it.
But relationships, no matter what kind…
…..are messy.
There is no way around that fact either.

So we hold everything in.
Behind masks, persona’s, pseudonyms…. walls.
Why?
Fear? Pride? Hurt?
Some combination & more?
This act or lack of action is not Biblical.
And so it is not healthy.


1 Corinthians 12:20-21 NIV, 26-27 NLT

20 But now there are many members, but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; or again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."

26 If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the parts are glad. 27 All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it.


Stop hiding.
Easy thing to say.
Hard thing to do.
But necessary for growth.
Remember, He is with you,What more can any of us ask for?