Community....

I am moved by what Peter Hoover, a friend wrote about visiting a christian community:

Our trip to the Danthonia Community goes down as one of the best trips we have ever taken -- relaxing, thoroughly enjoyable, and the kind one can spend a long time thinking about and learning from.

The most valuable thing, for me, was to see how an entire community can function so well with so little preaching and so little emphasis on rules and order. Yet, through opening themselves to the Spirit's leading, and to one another, the brothers and sisters living there have to a very large degree attained exactly what all of us strive after and long for. They live one with another in peace. They enjoy one another's presence, and they have a large number of eager, spiritually-minded young people throwing themselves into the cause.

What it takes, the Danthonia believers told me, is for everyone to become inwardly silent to where we can hear God speaking to us. Too many times we meet, not to listen, but to tell one another everything we know. That way nobody learns anything and no one can hear the voice of God at all.

Age difference

Today I spent the day with two very (age) different ladies. In the morning I gave a coaching for a woman who proved to be the post-war generation. I think it helped her to get her own feelings on the track and get closer to a solution.
The rest of the day I kept an eye on the three-month-old Anna so that her mother could visit her seriously ill father in the Berlin Charité clinic. Between the two "ladies" were probably around 60 years. These were two very different meetings, but the needs of the two were similar: interest, careful attention, sensing what might be good for them. I've enjoyed with both.
Now I am going to take care about the "lady" in my skin and who has got the same needs. I think the first is to get something to eat and to drink.

Originally written by Kerstin Hack on Saturday, 23rd August 2008 @ 18:53