community

community is it good? or is it bad? and when do we really experience true community? I would suggest it is only when we allow our selves to be changed by our experiences of people around us...to be good LISTENERS AND HEARERS of what people are telling us. We should no longer try and isolate people by bad humor, and " i told you so's" we shouldn't allow sarcasim, making fun of people and just plan hostile behaviours part of our daily exsistance because it just doesn't allow for true community. What isolates people is gay jokes, fat jokes, your too femaine jokes, and the list goes on. I must admit i was really senstive to these things before...but over the last year I have really allowed them to start becoming a part of my vocab again...and ashamed i admit that this is not community building of Christ living at all. Infact i am just like everyone else who isolates people can't talk seriously and is afraid of comfronting the people that say and do these types of things instead what is suppose to be a safe community.

we should never refer to people as that fat person, the ugly guy...the women who smells and so on and so forth...it is just not right and i stand frustrated with myself that i have changed who i was to someone who has for sure not allowed people to feel loved and cared for by the words that i have spoken...so lets clean up and get our mouth in check and we will see what a difference we can make by being inlcusive, loving, and kind.