Music

We are created in the image of God.  He is our Father.  A corollary to these truths is that we are relational beings.  God seeks to bring our our immortality and eternal life.  He counseled us to love God, and love our brothers and sisters as we love ourselves.  God's commandments are all relational commandments, i.e. how should we treat our parents, our neighbors, Him, etc.

Satan seeks to cut those ties.  He is fundamentally alone, and so he seeks to make us so as well.  If we are divided, we fall.  Satan uses addictions to cut us off from the rest of creation.  If we let him, he will use our addictions to isolate us and frustrate God's plans for us.

One of the blessings God granted to us to help in the struggle against isolation is music.  Music is, at its heart, relational.  It draws its power from the ability to speak, heart to heart, across the distances of time and space that would otherwise be impenetrable.  Does the music you choose draw you closer to others, or pull you into your own emotions?

I'd love to hear any other things that you find useful to keep yourself connected to God and your fellow man.