What my mere human perception reasons to be the largest
lesson learned living in Lacama is something to do with family, or love and
community.
For a time I believed that in order to live a life of love
in a community of love that I would have to do without for awhile in order for
God to teach me and prepare me for such a life. I have learned that I can live without a lot of things, but I cannot live
a life without love. And God uses a
community to perfect my love.
The love of God for Himself manifest itself in His being,
one of community. God is a community of
love: The Father who loves The Son, The Son who loves The Father; The Holy
Spirit who loves The Father, The Father who loves the Holy Spirit; The Son who
loves the Holy Spirit, The Holy Spirit who loves the Son. God does nothing outside of community. Although, I will not presume upon the meaning
of God’s creating me in His image, I am convinced that He has created me with a
need for community.
I need not worry about having such a community, because God has gifted me
something greater than a community. He
has given me a family. He has promised
me that wherever I go, I will have family. If I ever speak to a crowd of lost men, I will not merely be speaking to
men; I will be seeking the crowd for my brothers, my sisters, even my
mother. I will be calling my family to
their father, this I have known. And if
I ever find myself completely alone, with no man that loves me, I will not go
without… For in those moments, then will my Father draw Himself much
closer. So onward I will go, in the
lessons I have still to learn. Now
knowing all the more the necessities of love and community, yeah even family,
and now taking hold of the promises I have been promised: That wherever my path
shall take me, there the Lord has spread my family. Some I shall go about
calling, and with some I shall go about following. That Community of Love, The Family of
Divinity, for which I have left house and home and family and even friends to
follow, will in turn repay me.
Basically what I have learned is that: I should always look
upon the lost as potential family, I cannot do without love and community even
for a little while, and that God has promised to provide me these things that I
now know I need.
