The Making of a Community

Author: Karen

  • The Art of Connection

    The Art of Connection

    Bringing us together.

    In the USA specifically, we are pulled and pushed apart. We have been taught through all the “lessons” of our lives that we can not rely on anyone but our selves. The great disconnect. Look out for self, imagining all types of wrongs against each other, moving to the edge of a sidewalk to walk past the homeless or drug addicts and the “weird”, looking the other way when someone is abuse or neglected. let others starve while we horde.

    Enough. We have been lied to.

    What have we become?

    God,
    grant me the serenity
    to accept the things i can not change,
    To change the things i can,
    and the wisdom to know the difference.

  • Beyond the Obstacle

    The world and your own mind are full of reasons why you can not. Digging down to the foundation of your heart of hearts you must build on the bedrock of what you can. Above all else be true to yourself. Stand on your convictions. For the winds will surely blow and what is not built on a strong foundation will fall.

    Obstacles are not in the way to stop you, but to find out just how determined you are to go on. People are only know by their failures IF they quit. People don’t remember the failures of great people.

    “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”

    -Edmond Burke-

  • Growth Unlocked

    Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.

    Shakespeare

    We are all broken and if we’re not already, somewhere in the future we will be. There is so MUCH beauty and potential within each of us. Our brokenness is how it shines forth into the world.

    Stop fearing the unknown and the pressures of this life. God, himself, has placed us in the fires to try us. Refine us. Yes, to break us so that the fears and weaknesses can leave us and that tiny grain of faith can grow. Yield to His hands that he may shape us.

    In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith — the salvation of your souls.

    1 Peter 1:6-9

  • Collaboration

    According to the Cambridge Dictionary, collaboration means; “the situation of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing“.

    “For where two or three are gather together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matt 18:20

    One person, alone can do amazing thing, even the scriptures say, “…One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he it is that fights for you, as he hath promised you” Joshua 23: 10

    BUT if we unit, and work together, we can do MORE than we ever dreamed to accomplish alone.

    Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falls; fir he has no one to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat; bit how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord in not quickly broken.” Ecc 4:9-12

    https://youtu.be/4jFWEmhPm30