Community; a sharing in common. (Webster's definition.)
Is that what we're all looking for? The people who join churches, groups, networks? Even in the 'computer age' we look for a common ground. We want to know we are not alone.
So, what am I getting at?
I have been stock taking the last year. Tossing worn out, out grown, useless junk. I have come to sorting my "friends". My first observation has been; I am a far better friend to my friends, than they are to me. I visit them. I call them. I listen to them. I fix their problems. I listen to how rotten their lives are. Then, I am completely drained of energy. I have to physically rest. Does anything good happen to them?
I have tried to explain to them; that they can't see up by looking down.
Even church praise and worship groups don't get it. They are all worship, no praise. The prayer groups, I have only ever heard them concentrate on what they don't have. So, of course they get more of the same... lack.
I have decided, I am worth friends, who experience a variety of life. People should know blessing with the lessons life hurls at them. No matter how hard my lessons have been; I have always had miraculous blessings to help me through.
