Community...

I gave a talk on the Corporate disciplines today at New Heights. It went really well, but it was really hard to prepare for this talk. I may have mentioned this, but this has been a tough week.

I've had to make some decisions that will minorly isolate me from the community I love. It's hard to tell kids how important community is when this is happening. I realize that man was not made to be alone--God said so. I keep thinking about the book Blue Like Jazz (which I've convinced my mother to read...yay). Donald Miller talks so much about how we need community. I need it too. I'm going to be struggling to experience it in the near future, but I need it just the same.

Even worse, each passing day is one day closer to moving. When we get to Austin, Adam will be the only community I have. That's not a bad thing: I love that guy in a totally heterosexual way. (We're even soon to be hetero-lifemates like Stu & Lafe.) It will still be hard to leave behind so many people I love. I know Adam will struggle too. That's why I'm glad that he's the Paul McCartney to my John Lennon. I'm glad that I have a friend to make music with, to live life with, and to go on this crazy adventure with in Austin. I couldn't make it any other way.

God, I pray for a real sense of community. I pray for time alone to be a time of solitude--a time to listen to my creator speaking love and truth into my heart. God, when no one else is there, would you be by my side.