Community

So as a lot of you all know, I am living in Colorado, and many of you also know the reason why I am out here. The Father sent me on a beautiful journey about a year and a half ago and beautifully orchestrated my being here and guiding backpacking trips!! The Father has blessed me deeply since I have lived here. Time after time He has provided me with jobs and finances to allow me to be here. More than that though, He has thrown me into the greatest community I have ever been a part of.

For the longest time, back in VA, I was wrestling with what community was supposed to look like. As great as my relationships with my friends were, I always felt like there was so much more to a community of believers than just hanging out and enjoying each other company. Community seemed to be spending as much time with people as possible to get to know them.....although that is certainly part of it, there was still something missing. Any sort of deep conversation seemed to carry a weight of shame with it. Advice would be given but it never really helped that much. It seemed so much that everyones pursuit of the Father was our own and nothing more. There was no exchange of heart between anyone (even in deep conversations we hold back the scary things we don't want to share). As good as we thought we knew each other, we really didn't know that much past the "easy hard" things to share.

As I have walked with this community I have been given picture of what my heart was wanting for so long. The Father is showing me that the intimacy that I share with Him needs to pour out into the people He has surrounded me with. That a community brought together in His name, are a group of people who know each other deeply and celebrate often. That praying WITH each other is an invitation to corporately encounter His presence as well as an invitation into the deepest regions of our hearts. As a community we are on the front lines of the battle TOGETHER. Everyone has a specific role and calling them out and learning to walk in that role, that identity. A community does not have to try to push anyone towards intimacy, it is the natural reaction of being with each other in communion with the Father.

Jesus we Love you and we thank you that we are not created to do this alone!