My Quest for Community
The time I have spent finding the right passage, the perfect chapter or the best article to correctly highlight and express what I hope to see in our local community has not been in vain. It has been comforting and empowering, but not necessarily successful. Over and over again I am reading about the importance of community. The brilliance in surrounding yourself with a support system to lean into and lean on, not to mention the essential need our souls have to be accepted and belong to something larger than themselves. All of this is true and rings true in my heart and makes sense in my brain, but yet, falls just shy of truly describing what I see is a huge gaping hole in our local community. We have churches, sports clubs, self-help groups and families in which we have the opportunity to connect in a meaningful way. The smaller groups where we can be seen and understood by our hearts and our intentions and love for one another are essential to what I call “everyone’s d
