I've just started perusing Jean Vanier's classic, Community and Growth. Like Bonhoeffer, Vanier is concerned that we do not love our ideal of community more than the community of which we a part. I think his words are especially pertinent in our culture of rampant consumerism...
Too many people come into community to find something, to belong to a dynamic group, to discover a life which approaches the ideal. If we come into community without knowing that the reason we come is to learn to forgive and be forgiven seven times seventy-seven times, we will soon be disappointed.
Community and Growth, 37.
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Wow. I needed to hear that.
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