Wow. What a weekend...right?
We were reunited and things just picked up where they left off. (That's the sign of true friendship... it's like we never left.)
We shared in the Body and Blood of our Lord, Emmanuel, and we praised Him together and fell on our knees together. How beautiful of a bond that we share; we've been brothers and sisters longer than you may realize, brought together by a single desire for an experience, an encounter with the One we love.
Over the last six months, we've craved and thirsted together, and watched each other struggle and search and satisfy our cravings with other things besides God, and we did the same in our own lives. As this weekend approached we prepared to be strengthened again, refreshed in our training, and replenished at the table of The Lord.
Being back together, we realized that much of our strength comes from God through our brothers and sisters. We need each other; we don't have to walk alone any longer.
Now it's time to go home, back to our other friends, back to people who did not share in our experience, back to our homework, and practice, and routine. In a worldy reality, we all go back to normal, revert back to our comfort zone, let this weekend become a memory, and the encounter we had just a story...
No. Not again, not ever again. We are worth more than that. We have seen the inside of the honey comb, we took the red pill, and we have seen a reality contrary to everything we thought we knew. In this reality, the weak are strong and the poor are happy, and there is a happy ending! Hold on to it. Don't let go.
“But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 3:14
We are in this together, so together let's hold on to this experience, and every encounter preceding it, and together let's live our lives recklessly devoted to our God, the source of our happiness, the One who brought us together.
I believe in God.
I believe He created us.
I believe that He alone can satisfy our earthly yearnings.
I believe in us, because we have Him.
Brothers and Sisters, as we take this next step, we take it together, all the way to heaven.
“I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, because I hear of your love and of faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints, and I pray that the sharing of your faith may promote the knowledge of all the good that is ours in Christ. For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother[s and sisters], because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.” Philemon 1:4-7
All of you have given me so much joy. Thank you.
Alex, "Galilee"
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