Familiarity

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Amanson

An interesting topic as it affects so many of your brothers and sisters. They look about for something to hang on to – anything – that will remind them of home, of the place they’re most comfortable in, a place of familiarity. The most common theme in the search – the longing – for the familiar is a need for that which nourishes through memory: energy fortified by friendly faces, friendly landscapes, friendly atmospheres. When one can grip a familiar balustrade the stairway looks not so daunting, not quite so unknown. The familiar in a time of trial is especially important, for at least there you having something to bolster courage in the face of the vicissitudes of changing circumstance.

The benefits of the familiar are obvious, the detriments not so much. How much progress could a person make along the path of discovery and development if he or she were so addicted to the familiar it precluded leaving one’s post? The familiar is a necessary anchor when assessing the state of things – these things, the foreign things, can be seen in contrast with the familiar and pondered more effectively in the comfort of the familiar. But when familiarity demands loyalty, is insistent upon the mind of the inhabitant staying secure in its all-too-comfy arms, then the joy and peace and fellowship factor of this all-too-familiar familiarity have reached a point of diminishing returns. They are the proverbial ‘ties that bind’, but in a constricting and unhealthy way.

The Father of ‘familiarity’, our more and more familiar Father, is the atmosphere one carries with one and makes all situations familiar on a spiritual level. This is the familiarity one wants to nourish for it is indeed a movable feast. Where can one go and have it not be familiar? It’s only strange in the exterior circumstance. The interior circumstance has been traveled before because it changes not. It is familiarity itself. Your traveling companion has brought you maps, historical pamphlets, sights of local interest all in one fresh spirit. 

The craving for physical familiarity is certainly understandable, rational, helpful to one’s thinking and well-being; but being – learning to be – familiar with the unfamiliar is the greatest toast of all – a hearty “Hear Hear!” to this life that makes the unfamiliar eventually familiar, and that which is most unfamiliar the key and foundation to what will eventually be the most Familiar of all.