Coming together can create amazing results.
A few weeks ago our confirmation students wrote their “God thoughts” and names on pieces of cloth. Then we prayed. Praying with a group of forty-five teenagers in silence is an incredible experience. We were weaving the strips together to create an alter cloth for Wednesday evening worship. As I began to load the loom, I wondered if I would have enough cloth to cover the table when completed—surprisingly it was just right. The small strips were beautiful by themselves; unique as the students who made them, but when they all came together—well then something amazing happened.
We as a community of faith are also unique and beautiful individually. As we come, each weaving our own unique gifts together with others, surprising things begin to happen. Things we cannot imagine alone and we see that it is just right.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. John 15:4
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. Hebrews 10:24-25
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