The Phrase the "ties that bind" means "the shared belief or other factor that links people together."
We've all experienced this at one time in our lives. Whether it be in a relationship personal or work related. Sometimes circumstances even disaster brings a tie that binds even to those unknown to each other prior to the event. Even our world wars have tied whole populations together. Bringing peoples together who never knew each other existed beforehand. Ask a combat veteran, they will tell you of a tie that binds making brothers and sisters of each other.
Christians share a tie that binds in the love Christ placed in our hearts.
I've had many ties in my life, some from unexpected sources. Like the disastrous fires that claimed lives and property in Tennessee. This claimed and held hostage peoples peace and feeling of safety. Material things are just that, material. The memories from these things that are precious will live on forever in hearts. But the bittnerness, rage and hatred for the blaming of this loss lives forever too. I have met some wonderful people, strong people, who have looked to love and God to see them through. Then I have seen the bitterness and hatred dividing. I've heard name calling, I've heard the age old arguments from grade school, "mine is bigger than yours" "mine hurts worse" to be specific one of the most bitter responses is you didn't lose everything so your ignorant.
That couldn't be farther from the truth. You see that disaster and other disasters like Katrina, affected everyone in the immediate area and even people across the world, as they watched it unfold. I sit everyday and I watch the pain and the suffering. Especially from those who lost loved ones, and I go through that with them so they can't really say your loss nothing, so you're ignorant, that's bitterness and hatred and that has to go. I know this because bitterness, rage and blaming others almost ruined me, years ago.
That has to go, blaming someone is the first thing that humans want to do. That happened to Adam and Eve in the garden, the blame game started when Eve believed Satan. But it has to stop. Somewhere at some point we have to say enough we have to stop attacking each other especially. We have to stop attacking personally, officials. At some point we have to say how can we fix this? How can we make this a better place? How can we make everyone prepared? The Ties That Bind, when they turn to bitterness and hatred it becomes a prison. And that's what I see our community becoming instead of a loving community that came together to support each other we have become a prison of hatred and bitterness.
Not everyone, but bitterness, hatred and rage spreads like cancer, fast and furious infecting the whole body if not stopped.
Religious leaders are calling for forgiveness and peace. But sadly it falls on deaf ears. But with prayer, love and forgiveness we can save one tie at a time. Unless you give bitterness to God there's nothing He can do, if you hang onto it, He can't help. Let's make the ties That Bind us a blessing not a prison.
"Blest Be the Tie that Binds"
by John Fawcett, 1740-1817
1. Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
2. Before our Father's throne
We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our alms, are one,
Our comforts and our cares.
3. We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear,
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.
4. When here our pathways part,
We suffer bitter pain;
Yet, one in Christ and one in heart,
We hope to meet again.
5. This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way,
While each in expectation lives
And longs to see the day.
6. From sorrow, toil, and pain,
And sin we shall be free
And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.
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