Designed for Love and Connection. Designed for Family.

Wheatley Fellow Jenet Erickson gave a devotional address at BYU-Idaho about the human need for connection, and how humans are designed, both in a theological and a biological sense, to thrive in a family.

You see, we are not designed for isolation and pleasure-seeking autonomy. We are deeply relational beings, designed not for independence but for radical dependence and connection. In the exquisite language of the first great commandment, we are each a heart-soul-mind-strength complex designed for love, in its deepest form. We are designed for family. We are family. The eternal family.

Watch the devotional here.