Why are we all here together?

ever wonder?

why we're all here, in this world where it's so easy to feel alone. there are people everywhere you look and yet we can choose to be completely isolated from each other. in fact, it's easier to be on our own.

...but God had something else in mind for us...

i went to 7:22 tonight. it's this really amazing Bible Study/church service/movement that happens on Tuesday nights for singles here in Atlanta. and it just so happens that now it takes place in the very building that i work in everyday. so, i went. i had no excuse not to really, and i need the community. it's too easy in my job to lose that. which seems so strange for me to even write because i work for a church. but the nature of my job is that i spend all week trying to put the most amazing music and worship together along with our entire team and yet i rarely get to really worship, myself. so i went...

Jarrett Stevens spoke about community and the importance of being in community with each other. he focused on Acts 2 and about the first church and how they lived together and had constant fellowship with each other. he talked about how important it is for us to talk to each other. and to be sure that we have people in our lives that we can really open up to and be vulnerable with.

this is one of my soapboxes actually, so i thought that i would share a rambling of mine from a letter that i wrote to a friend.

"...Feelings are so powerful on their own, but they come to life when they are spoken. There is something so vulnerable and real about sharing your heart with another person and having them stay and listen and still want to be with you. It’s completely validating and it bonds you together for life. This is one of the sweetest gifts that we can share with each other on this earth. Listening, hearing, and staying. I think sometimes that it’s the perfect gift because it’s just as immeasurable for both people. The one sharing feels understood and accepted, and the one listening feels such a sense of pride and selflessness in helping to make the other person feel understood and loved. Intimacy between people is difficult, but when it’s done correctly and continuously between two souls, it is like heaven on earth. I think that was God’s intention in giving us to each other. He could have given each of us our own world to live in. It would have made things much easier for Him and for us. We would have had no trouble living just for Him. But instead, He put us here together and gave us ways to help each other and to love each other, and He uses so much of our relationships with each other to let us understand our relationship with Him. And then in turn, because of our relationship with Him, we are better able to relate to and love each other..."

how smart is our Father in Heaven?!?