K....I should be in bed right now, big day ahead tomorrow....last of The Vacation!!! But just a swirling thought.....and better to get it off my mind than having it keep me up banging around in there! :0)
In the past, when people have said, "Thanks for "reaching out" to so & so"....it wood tweek me and I would have a knee jerk reaction that has not always come out so gently.
I always wondered why I would react in that way. I think I finally understood it better while I was floating around the pool today with big raindrops hitting me. I think it is a matter of intimacy. I can do stuff for others, from me, to them out there. 'Serving'. (and sometimes that is important & necessary) But, to me, I am not "reaching out" to people, I'm "pulling in". The difference is intimacy, family, community.
Lately, we've been asking questions about what community is, how it plays out in "the church", the family, the Kingdom, just friend to friend. What is community anyway?? All I know is I want it and I'm pressing in till we begin to see it & have a better understanding of what constitutes community and how we get from here to there. To some extent, we are stepping into new areas of community and caring for one another with Family Night (FWB) on Mondays. I wrote an earlier blog about FWB if you would like to know more about what that is.
Definitely more on community & intimacy in the days ahead. Blessings & Peace be multiplied to you!!!
BTW I looked up "community" in my trusty Mac dictionary, I like this definition:
3 a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals (Kingdom)
• joint ownership or liability (I like the liability part.... :0)
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Shabba. ;)
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