We had a fun day around the house celebrating Thanksgiving with our Student Ministries staff. What a great opportunity to choose who we celebrate with, to choose to do life together, to choose to enjoy an absolutely beautiful day! We did the day up right with all the fixings — except one, which no one noticed so I’m not going to point it out! We laughed and ate and switched seats and sat around afterward groaning just like we will all do seperately next week. And we gave thanks.
In continuing my reading of Community by Peter Block today I ran across this quote.
“What makes community building so complex is that it occurs in an infinite number of small steps, sometimes in quiet moments that we notice out of the corner of our eye. It calls for us to treat as important many things that we thought were incidental. An afterthought becomes the point; a comment made in passing defines who we are more than all that came before.”
I loved that line: quiet moments we notice out of the corner of our eye. Those are the moments that build, one after another, into a life lived together. They are also the very moments that we tend to overlook, treat as insignificant, even mess up because our guard is down. I’m grateful for those quiet — and not so quiet — moments of community. And I’m strangely lonely when they pass.
