Systemic is a nasty word

I say relationships are important like it's some new thing - like I came up with it. But, if you really take a look around you and think, you will realize that everyone and everything exists in relationship. It's the idea of systems - an object is defined by its surroundings. Everything is always in a context. The idea is so pervasive in nature, it almost disappears.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer is it doesn't really matter. Nothing apart from relationship matters. If you discover some profound truth about life, then what does it matter if there is no one to share it with?

There was this systems theorist (his name was Ludwig von Bertalanffy) who was attempting to nail down a unifying theory for all of nature. Now, that's a job, but I think he was onto something. I don't know if he ever could have explained everything, but relationships just are. We can't escape them. I think its that way because that's who God is - relationship - and the nature we experience flows from his nature.