Community [five minute friday]

I've neglected this little blog a while... But recently I prayed that I might find my own words again, rather than simply retweeting those belonging to everyone else. God told me that this writing thing is about remembering who I am and who He is and what He made me to be and how I'm in His image and a million other things. Also? He suggested I get my butt in gear and type.  


Five minutes of writing seems like a good place to start again. Gently does it. 

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I am hungry for community. So hungry it hurts, because it never seems to come. The never is maybe a lie, because sometimes it takes time. I get so tired of holding out my heart and having people not be interested. I want to have people to do life with, to share a joke and to share tears. I want to be able to love people and serve people and go for coffee and change the world. Love has to be the thing. (Oh look, there's my word for 2012...) Loving people and not having them love you back is a hard thing. Jesus has an abundance of love for me, and oh how I love Him, love Him, love Him. Is it so bad to want a hug once in a while? Just to be held, just to hold someone, their heart, their dreams, so that they can go out into the world and change it? 


Community with Jesus at its heart is a light to this hurting world where individualism runs rampant, and silently, slowly chokes the life out of all of us. We are made for relationship by a beautiful, loving God, and loneliness silently kills the soul. I pray for a loveplace that goes to the hurting and broken and lonely with open arms and just says, 'Welcome... We will love you.'


Stop. 


five minute friday with Lisa-Jo at The Gypsy Mama - come and play?