What Happens To You Matters To Me...Living Life In Community
Over the last couple of months I have been thinking a lot about community. The people that I surround myself with, the ones I invest in, the people I choose to make my people. The people I go to in the good and the bad times. The ones who make me better just by being in my life. When I moved to Los Angeles six months ago, I did not have a close group of people to call my own, I had a new church, new neighbors, and new friends. God has helped bring those people into my life, to look after me, pray for me, eat chocolate with me and talk me out of bad decisions. But even with those bonds being built over these last few months, I still have my hesitations towards being in community with people. I am not fully giving myself to these new relationships. As I was thinking about these hesitations the other day, I started to think about Thailand. Going away to Thailand was the first time in my life that I was away from my family for an extended period of time. Which felt strange because at h