So thankful for the ministry of Jack and Pam Borchert here at FBC. You have truly blessed us. This made me think of you.... ON COMMUNITY by Jean Vanier COMMUNITY AND FREEDOM Community is the place where we ideally learn to be ourselves without fear or constraint. Community life deepens through mutual trust among all its members. The more authentic and creative a community is in its search for the essential, the more its members are called beyond their own concerns and tend to unite. A community becomes truly and radiantly one when all its members have a sense of urgency. It is when the members of a community realize that they are not there simply for themselves or their own sanctification, but to welcome the gift of God, to hasten His Kingdom, and to quench the thirst of others, that they truly live as community. The process of becoming a community happens when the majority of its members make the transition from ‘the community for myself’ to ‘myself for the community.’ Loving means to want others to fulfill themselves according to God’s plan. It means wanting them to be faithful to their own calling. The more community deepens, the more vulnerable and the more sensitive its members become. Community is established by the simple, gentle concern that people show each other every day. It is made of the small gestures, all the services and sacrifices which say ‘I love you’ and ‘I’m happy to be with you.’
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:55:26 +0000
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