“At the same time, me turning 28 has come with a more acute feeling and awareness of aging – and with it comes concerns about my future. There is a funny kind of irony in being a therapist and espousing the need to not compare yourself with others and then find yourself doing just that: comparing yourself to others and thinking that, once again, you just don’t measure up.”

“There are communities of loving individuals out there and there’s also a chance that there is a community God is waiting for you to start right where you are. God is calling, not just for people to come to him but for us to go out and love as well, so that they might see and they might come to know.“

…I finally accepted the truth that, as life progresses, our community and how it interacts with our lives progresses too. I’ve always been a proponent of community but now I, with some hindsight, have realized that my interpretation of “community” may have been small and incomplete.

How often I forget that despite all of our perceived shortcomings and imperfections, insignificance, and ephemerality, that we have purpose and have been given worth by God. Perhaps there is still something beautiful yet to be made of this life that I’m living.