Community is what we all desperately desire, and are utterly afraid of. Constantly walking through life with another person being your mirror, instead of a shiny piece of glass. These past two months have been rough in revealing that I am just like any other human that wants intimacy.
Intimacy with my Jesus.
Intimacy with my family.
Intimacy with my friends.
Intimacy with my Husband (one day;)
We are all wired to operate in community, but somewhere along the way the lines get crossed.
A parent rips them out, a significant other tries to put them back.
A close friend gets in there and jumbles them up like crazy.
A stranger stomps all over our heart and purity without any consideration for the state they leave it in.
and the wires end up severely damaged and frayed.
This is where a community comes in and tenderly removes some of the damaged wires and replaces them with JESUS!!
If I am honest I did much more observing than investing in Australia. I see that God created our hearts with very similar desires, they just manifest themselves in very different ways for different people, and thats the beauty of our Creator. Yet this 2 month debrief revealed to me that I hesitate to expose my own heart’s wires….
Ho Chi Minh City is a beautiful city, and I am thrilled to be back in the Eastern world. As my squadmates and I walked the streets looking for bowls of soup or fresh fruit smoothies, it was impossible for us to not recognize the state of the electrical wiring.
I still have so much to learn on this year of globe-trotting. But one thing I know for sure is that each and every one of us desires to be loved, acknowledged, hugged, laughed with, missed, cried over…you get the point.
My hope is to become an electrician for Jesus. Learning how to carefully and correctly untangle wires for his charming children.
Pray that I may fully expose the wires of my heart.
