Grateful for Community

Grateful… surrounded by loving community, even when it is across the miles.

Last December, we began our midweek prayer circle in the chapel. It’s open to anyone. Primarily, there are three of us who felt a deep need for a time when we weren’t talking about prayer, or learning more about it, but simply doing it together. Most of our time is spent in silence. Since we are mostly in silence, you might wonder why we do it together. There is community even in silence, when our quiet breathing helps us to be centered on the One who is Community personified. Our God who is Three in One graciously opens the Divine Community up to include us.

I think all three of us humans who have been gathering will readily admit that there are more than a few moments during our prayer when we become distracted. Thanks be to God that God does not ignore us during those moments. Slowly we bring our breathing and praying back into focus in God’s presence.

Summertime is tough to get together so we have gotten creative in using technology. We have connected in two places a few times. This week we connected from three separate locations. The miles don’t matter. It’s the community in God’s presence. And so today, I am grateful for how technology allows us to connect.

Matthew 18.20:

For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”