Perhaps I am a smuck, a helpless romantic, a bit too domesticated. The truth is I believe that a great many of the songs and movies of popular culture point to the desire to find a home in the heart where we are one with another or with a particular other. This rather new phenomena is not a product of the culture we live in or the time we live. This call, voice if you will, has been, is and will be for all time a connecting thread for all creation. It doesn't make a difference where you live, when you lived, or how you lived. You and I have longed for another to complete us, another to reflect our soul, our image, and in a certain way we have within us a craving to create a new creation with our own unique DNA. And when we connect to make this happen it is the climatic point for us. It is the epitome of existence. It isn't about procreation or even extending our influence from our offspring. It is so innate, this desire to connect, that it makes us human carved in the likeness of God.
In the beginning God created...in His likeness, in His image, He made them. Male and Female like God.
"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness;
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them."
'In His image' contains three elements; masculine, feminine, and creative. We, when we connect to one another, bear offspring, children, and generations, that in turn do the same. They spring forth from us. Just like God.
He was the first. And He wasn't really a He. He was a relationship. A man, a woman, and the voice. The creative power of life. This is how the trinity we speak of makes sense and connects to us made in the image of God.