Thoughts on community....

At our new church our women's group started today and I am beyond EXCITED!!!!!!!! I really could use the honesty of other women pursuing God, and I am so honored to get to know these ladies and to be apart of their lives. As I arrived (a little late always making one a little self conscious) I started to feel this pull that maybe today I just shouldn't go, maybe I would just join in next week, I thought to myself, after all I am the new kid in town of this group of women, but I got out of the car and went in. As I sat there the leader described how she is very open with her life, and struggles, because she remembers a time when she was a new believer and she had Christian women in her life, but yet she still felt alone and like she didn't have anyone to confide in and to pray with her. I sat looking around the circle at women who were all so different, but our passion and pursuit is the same...to know God more, and to look more like Him!!!! God has answered a prayer for a spiritual sisterhood in my life, and I am excited to see the great things God is going to do in and through this group.
After I got home I read this devotional that had this scripture so I wanted to share it because I think it is essential to real community!


Real wisdom, God's wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy it's results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.
James 3:17-18
(this is from the message so it is worded differently...but I loved the way it was worded)

Be patient with each other, and live in peace....