Community

Why You Need to Find Community {even when you’re really hurting}

Apr 12, 2012 05:30 am | Ann Voskamp

http://www.incourage.me/2012/04/why-you-need-to-find-community-even-when-youre-really-hurting.html

(*****READ the comments section of the article too!!!)

Yes, we all need community!  Loved this article.  Here are some of my favourite quotes from it:

• There are times when leaving things unsaid to most, and mostly said to one, can be the way love covers over a multitude of sins.
• The shields that protect you can easily become the bars that imprison you.
• I didn’t want love to hurt and the truth is that love means to suffer and there’s no getting around it.
• And found loneliness to be more injurious than rejection because it can be self inflicted. There is always someone to love.
• Love is a tree, each person a branch. And a pile of cut off branches doesn’t make a tree. Love can only be comprehended in community. You need imperfect people in your life to perfect your practice of love.
• There are no solitary saints; all sanctification is forged in community.
• The chance to love imperfect people is another chance to perfect His love in me. And all the believers are belongers.
• That her keeping company with her had kept something inside of her together.
• Joining and participating in just one group or community this year cuts your odds of dying in half over the next year.
• Love is a tree, each person a branch. And a pile of cut off branches don’t make a tree. Love can only be comprehended in community.