So in the past few years God has really been putting community on my heart. Prior to these years I found myself xtremely independent and somewhat proud of that. I felt I could do it all on my own. A lot of that came to a crashing halt when I moved to Cincinnati and suddenly found myself very, very lonely and not knowing anyone. Suddenly being independent wasn’t such a good thing, and it kind of held me back because instead of reaching out I would hold back. Because I again I didn’t need others, I could do it all on my own. I then stumbled onto the community that I find myself in now at Crossroads, which I have been truelly grateful for I believe I see a community that tries to mirror exactly what we should be to our own communities. However I have struggled with really showing that community to my own neighborhood. Then this weekend I had the joy of receiving from my neighbors. While I was out on my walk with Midnight Saturday, Lindsey (my roommate, not me obviously) left the condo and locked it up as would I if I were leaving however I didn’t take my keys with me and we don’t have a spare hidden anywhere. I tried breaking in to my place, but well unfortunately in this situation mywindows are burglar proof. It was around this time that I had my dog tied up and she chewed through her leash and started running around the condo complex. So when a neighbor who was walking her dog came around Midnight started running straight for her dog. By this time I was besides myself really not knowing what to do. I explained to my neighbor what happened and she asked if my back porch door was open which it was, but its up two stories to reach it. But now we had reasoned that there was a way in. While she went inside for a second another neighbor came out and I told him the situation and he started brainstorming places to get a ladder. After raoming around the complex a little asking around for a ladder, the first neighbor came out saying she had called her roofer friend and he was just getting done for the day and he was down the street. Just a few minutes later he came up and was able to climb up into my porch and walk through and let me in. After all this I realized thats exactly why we have community because we are stupid sometimes and we need people to help get us out of trouble and we can’t alwaysdo it on our own. I also was amazed at how my neighbors came through for me, I’ve been thinking for a while that I need to be more of a blessing to them and here they are being a blessing to me.
