I am struggling with the idea of community right now. Or maybe I'm just lacking that fellowship right now. I know there's individual responsibility. Sometimes, though, I think one can find themselves in an environment that is just not as conducive in providing a community. Brothers and sisters in Christ. Fellow followers.
Occasionally, I listen to Bob Dylan. He's a remnant from my childhood - along with Simon & G, the Beatles, and James Taylor. Bobby Dylan wrote an obscure song on his unnoticed album Saved called "Covenant Girl." I read once in an article that he wrote the song after he was in a motorcycle accident and he "found Jesus" for a brief amount of time. He talked about how difficult it was to find a community that helped foster spiritual growth. Or even better help him give up the booze, drugs and women. I'd like to think if he had a solid surrounding of people who cared, he would have a better chance at staying a Christian.
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"Covenant Girl"
I've been broken, shattered like an empty cup.
I'm just waiting on the Lord to rebuild and fill me up.
And I know He will do it 'cause He's faithful and He's true,
He must have loved me so much to send me someone as fine as you.
Covenant woman, intimate little girl
Who knows those most secret things of me
that are hidden from the world.
You know we are strangers in a land we're passing through.
I'll always be right by your side, I've got a covenant too.
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"Some religious communities foster a vision in the face of life's unshakable tragic dimension, of continuing reasons for despair, and of simplistic tendencies to pin hopes on a particular eschatological future or reduce them to personal wishes. Such covenant communities keep hope alive among those who have the good fortune or the good judgment to land in them."-Covenant, Community, and the Common Good by Eric Mount
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So, I was snooping around the web/blog world, and I was happy to find this little place of reprieve...and you had me at Kierkegaard's "sweep me up." (Have you seen "Waking Life?")
"Community," in all of its variance and nuance is an endlessly fascinating/difficult/intimidating/ultimately most desireable thing. I overheard a conversation recently (ok, I was sort of listening in), that felt quite familiar...a girl said to to the friend with whom she was talking..."I love my solitude, and my quiet hours alone, but I find that sometimes I long for friends, for a community of people around me, but because I haven't done the 'work' of investing in that, it isn't there."
It felt familiar in that the introvert (myself being one of them)still desires and needs, perhaps more than he or she is always aware of, the balm of relationships and community. As we well know by now, "no man is an isalnd."
Enough rambling...be well, friend...andrew
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