"It demands that we use our gifts for our own communities as well as for others. It demands that we make relationships a priority. It demands that we make community for others. It demands that we share ourselves, our minds, our insights, and our time with one another. Most of all, it demands that we allow the people in our lives to be who they are and grow as they can."
I read this yesterday. I'm chewing on it.
I think I struggle with some of these things. That whole sharing of ourselves, our minds, our insights, our time... I don't know if I do that well...
I want to love this community in entirety.
I am praying for God to be my strength in this.
"Community is the only antidote we have to an individualism that is fast approaching the heights of the pathological in this world."
An unknown family on a North Sea Beach - a gift for me from God. Seen from afar - enjoyed this sweet interchange...once again - learning from children.
"Alone, I am what I am, but in community I have the chance to become everything that I can be."
your mutating missionary
8 comments:
What precious moments did you capture here! And great thoughts with it.
Thanks for sharing, hugs, Helen
hello, dear friend. we haven't talked in a long time. how are you? really....I think of you often, and am just thinking as I read your blog....how is my dear friend?
you are dear to us also...and we appreciate the depth of your thoughts and your heart and the demonstration of your gifts like these photos. You make life richer for us be being.
i meant:
"You make life richer for us just by being."
"Community is the only antidote we have to an individualism that is fast approaching the heights of the pathological in this world."
A good point.
The break-up of the family unit in some cases helps contribute to individualism as well.
Hey Robyn! I am so glad to see that you are doing so well. I miss you sooo much. Things are going well. I blogged again and I am going to try and do it more often. Love Nikki
Hi there!
I struggle to know if I am doing this well or not too.
I can think of many people I'd like to have dinner with and yet only one invitation is out there so far.
Yet another part of my life that I want to be intentional about evaluating and then responding to.
I also need to remember that community is built through lots of small moments. They really do add up.
Thanks for inviting me to think about it again.
The more individualistic our world becomes the more authentic community will be a light in a dark world.
Praying for you!
Cheri
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