The Challenged Community

Writing a blog is different from the writing I am accustomed to participating in, need less to say here we begin.

I run into individuals often who have sought out on the journey of faith and righteousness and voice their frustration with the lonliness they have found prevalent in the process. I too feel lonely and can relate to the toil of "digging" alone. The quite disturbing matter in this dilemma is the fact that "we" who claim to be pilgrims and sing the songs of pilgramage, often fail to see one another on the single road traveled and often fail to recognize the footprints left by those who trailed before us.

Unfortunately, I have yet to resonate with conventional wisdom that exclaims "we each have a personal journey to God" underlining "personal" as if it is the most important possibility in one's life. We each have an understanding that we have "personal" responsibilty but how does this translate into a "solo" mission. I hear the word's of the Writer to the Jewish Christians concerning those who have gone before us and their relation to our time and struggle, "let US run with patience the race that is set before US" in proper context this cannot be interpreted in any other way except in a communal aspect...meaning the author had an assumption that these individuals would encourage one another and walk with one another being encouraged by those who walked before them and to continue in their stead.

I struggle because I carry not the utensils to clear my view, you stumble cause you too have burdened yourself with a journey in where there are no days off and yet we must continue, but your tools dull at times creating a yoke we were never intended to bear...

"God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. "

Come Let us Join our Patriarchs and Matriarchs into the Land of flowing honey...