I would like to start off by saying I am so thankful for the prayers form everyone home . I am alive and mostly well ( I will tell you what happened in one moment ) . God is working in my life as he always is and thought me about community in particular this time.
Me and a couple of people on my squad decided that for an off day we would go to Mindo and go the waterfalls there and jump off the waterfalls. We left at 7 and took a bus and a van to the waterfall. Nothing too eventful on the ride there. Once we arrived there, we walked about 20 min and found a beautiful waterfall and saw many waterfalls. There was a slide that you could go on and there was also a place where you could jump of a cliff. Now I must clarify that this was actually a safe place to jump , many people have jumped there before and they gave us life jackets . We decided that we should jump off the waterfall and I did . It was so much fun and I loved it . After waiting for everyone else to go for the first time, I decided to go a second time. As you might be thinking now, this second jump was not ideal. I was slightly off and hit the bottom and a rock became part of my foot . I did not notice this lovely rock until I tried to walk and I was in pain. I looked down and saw I had a rock the size of a nickel about an inch or so into my foot . One I realized that I asked for help from my teammates and they quickly helped me wrap up my food and I kinda felt a little better. After resting for a while, I realized that I still need to hike 20 min out.Now this was not your casual walk in the park to get back, there was some fairly steep parts and hills . Fortunately I had some amazing team mates that helped me hike about 1/4 of a mile on one foot . Now let me just repeat that for those of you who might not realize how difficult that is , I had to hike with one foot . I kinda felt like a wounded soldier being carried off the battlefield. Now I won’t go into much detail, but there was lots of sweet, tears, and a little blood and barf. But that is not all , one we arrived to the top I went into a cab and went to the clinic. Keep in mind that I still have a rock inside of me . I am quite literally in between a rock and a hard place . I was painfully but fairly quickly treats and got 6 stitches. I won’t go into too much detail about it , but it was not a good time . Then the adventure of coming back home begin. Because I can’t walk on one food I had to hop and hobble my way back home with the help of my amazing team . We made it back alive and for the most part well.
This reminded me of just how important community is . Just like I could not walk by my self because I had a rock in my foot, I can not walk alone in life without a good community around me . Just as I realized I can’t walk with out the help of others , I must realize I need encourage and poor into people and I need to be able to accept help. I need to listen to feedback just as needed to lean on them in order to walk. We were not designed to walk alone in life and not only do we need to depend on God, but we need a good community to poor into our of love and accept the love that a proper community would give to you .
We need a good community of fellow believers that are reflections of God and give Him the glory as well of calling you to a higher standard in love . A good community will do things out of love and what they see in you as a child of the most high. Not only do we need a good community to keep is accountable, but we need to be able to respond to feedback properly. We need to humble our selfs and let people speak into your life just as I needed to lean on others in order to walk.
I can could go into more detail, but I choose to keep it simple . We need to have a good community and we need to lean on them and grow closer to God . Your community should be reflections of God and hold you to a higher standard. The question is will you humble yourself and change ?
