yesterday i brushed my teeth with someone else’s toothbrush and today i swallowed Kyla’s gum so she wouldn’t have to. i put tea tree oil on Kaylee’s infected bug bites and screamed with 3 other people about a snake that was a foot away from me. we all share 3 water bottles and eat from the same bowl of popcorn most nights. community at its finest.
but on a real note…
we’re living life here like we’re supposed to be, in community with other believers.
talking about dreams and fears and Jesus and life and real things
dreams: subconscious dreams, the nighttime ones, asking God to dream with us in those. to give us visions and revelations and symbols and prophecy. but also the other type of dreams: the ones that we have thought about since we were little kiddos, what we’re meant to do, finding our calling. asking God to be in our dreams, make them God-sized, things we can’t do without Him.
fears: life not in community when we get home, pursuing our calling in life, all the unknowns and barriers.
asking questions, some impossible to answer and others not: about what life will be like back home, spiritual gifts, listening prayer, growing deeper with Christ, what exactly is our calling, etc etc etc, on and on and on. (seriously, sorry for all the questions this week, Lucie)
encouraging each other! building each other up! calling each other higher!
this is what life is supposed to be like!!!
community isn’t always easy, by any means. we get annoyed with how some people do things, like cleanliness, leaving empty toilet paper rolls in the bathroom, noise levels around bedtime, the amount of sugar put in the sweet tea, or lack thereof….
but despite the finite, minuscule problems, living in this community is great. i have never been with less than 11 people at one time. although i sometimes wish i could lock myself in my a room by myself, being with these people is making such a great impact on my life in the best way possible. i’m learning a lot about and through community, by living with so many people i’m learning patience and humility and kindness and generosity. but from the girls i’m living with, i’m learning about passion, dreams, excitement, all good things that prove that these people are made in the image of the Creator. i feel blessed tenfold.
“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!”
??Psalm? ?133:1
