A great quote on "Community"

I came accross this book today (The Inner Voice of Love by Henri Nouwen) at the library that has a lot of great thoughts. One that really grabbed my attention was a great thought about community.

"You have to move gradually from crying outward-
crying out for people who you think can fulfill your
needs - to crying inward to the place where you
can let yourself be held and carried by God, who
has become incarnate in the humanity of those
who love you in community. No one person can
fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly
hold you. The community can let you experience the
fact, beyond your anguish, there are human hands
that hold you and show you God's faithful love."

Cry inward (to God) and open yourself up to the loving, caring hands of Christ. Pray that God's people, his church, his very body will be the hands to hold you up and show you God's faithful love. Be those hands to someone else.