becoming together

Opening Prayer: Together you created us, O God, and together is how you made us to be.  In fact, you even said that, “It is not good for man to be alone.”  You created us to live in community, not in isolation.  So give us the strength and the courage to do just that.  For that is how we become all that we were intended to be.  Amen.

Scripture: Psalm 133:1-3

Journal: How is your community encouraging your becoming?  How are you encouraging others to become all that God desires them to be?

Reflection:

"How good and pleasant it is when brothers and sisters live together in unity.” (Psalm 133:1)

“We are never more ourselves than when we pray.  But if we remain only ourselves, we are less than ourselves.” ~Eugene Peterson

We can only become our truest selves together.  It can never fully happen alone.  Only together will we ever have the courage and the strength and the wisdom it takes to stop listening to the lies of the world—and our insecure hearts—and listen to the Voice of the One who whispered us into being.  Only together will we ever be able to let go of the false self and become who and what we were really intended to be.  Alone we will always either cave in or chicken out.  Alone we will always be at the mercy of mood and whim and circumstance.  But together there is strength.  Together we are able to call each other to more—to being all that God desires us to be.  Now that really is good and pleasant! 

Prayer

Closing Prayer: Forgive me, O Lord, when I begin to believe that I can actually become more alone than I can together.  I cannot.  Only in relationship with you, and with my brothers and sisters in Christ, can I ever hope to have the strength and the courage and the wisdom to be who and what I truly am in you.  Amen.