Community is the love of Christ. It has the power to calm a tsunami of out-of-control emotions. Feeling alone and forgotten overwhelms a soul. Sometimes we need Christ with flesh. He chooses to show up in the real life presence of friends. I have been a friend in need and I want to be there, but I often feel so small compared to the immense suffering my friend is facing. I find myself overwhelmed because there is very little I am able to change. I can’t stop cancer from raging through a body. I can’t will a person to come back from the dead. I can’t make the agony of losing a child, spouse, friend less ravishing in the wake of emptiness it creates. I can’t remedy families torn apart by divorce More recently, I have been the friend in need. I have experienced my friends as a hug...
