God has been teaching me a ton about community lately.  More specifically, His idea of community.  As I continue to seek His heart, I'm stretched.  I'm daily reminded of His goodness and provision as I look around at this community He has surrounded me with.  We are simply living life together.  It's fun, it's hard, it's vulnerable, it's stretching, it's life giving.  Something tells me that the lessons God is teaching us and the eternal impact of this is much bigger than it seems.

Recently, a friend shared an article by John Eldridge with me.  The topic of discussion was community.  I've taken a few excerpts from it to include here, and I'm chewing on these words... 

Living in community is like camping together. For a month. In the desert. Without tents. All your stuff is scattered out there for everyone to see. C'mon-anybody can look captured for Christ an hour a week at church, from a distance, in his Sunday best. But your life is open to those you live in community with.