To be an Authentic Community | Friday, April 29, 2005
I was just thinking about my last week cg sharing about an authentic community and we were sharing whether we are able to unveil ourselves in our cg and let the others know all our fears, shame, joy, happiness and to dare to be ourselves in the cg. To be authentic and dare to be real to others and ourselves require enormous risks and we are placing ourselves in a very vulnerable situation where others can just tear us apart, betray us and causes us to lose faith and trust with one another and we have secrets that we are deeply ashamed of and strongholds that would cause us to lose our dignity and status, reputation and become gossip fodder for others to chew on. That is why we would cover up and just like one friend was just sharing with me this afternoon that we can put on a smiling face and acts as if everything is alrite with us and that God has been gd to us but inwardly, everything is just crumbling away and our hearts are full of anguish and sorrow and yet, we would not allow this face to show up but rather the hypocritical smiling face.
To be authentic within a community requires enormous courage and faith that someone out there cares about me and is interested in my well-being and is committed to pray for me and we have to ask ourselves whether we are willing to play this part or not otherwise, there's no point in talking about an authentic community. We too need to make ourselves vulnerable and the real qn that is important is whether we dare to take the risk, Truth be told, i dun dare and would not want to put myself under that kind of pressure. The irony is that deep in our hearts, we want to be a part of that community but would never have the courage to join. God help us to take that first trusting step to trust one another and believe that God would take care of the rest. That is my prayer and hope that one day we will reach that stage not only in heaven but also here on earth.
I truly believe that we are a world of hurting people and we use all kind of drugs to numb our pain and that drug can be relationships, work, money, material comforts or other things and yet, there would come one day where we find these things meaningless and nothing would satisfy us or numb our pains, pressure, stress and frustrations. We dun even dare to cry out loud because we dun want to let others see our vulnerability and in times of weaknesses. We heard many times from others and even urselves sometimes that "Only Jesus satisfies" and that is true indeed but there is something behind my mind that keeps thinking that there must be something more than this. You may not agree with me but i do believe that something is Jesus is present in this earth through me and you and that we are to be more like Christ and that we can build an authentic community like Jesus did with his 12 disciples. Y not take the chance to build meaningful friendships with one another that could bless you throughout your lifetime? Why not take time to bare your souls with one another and you find it will do you gd? The question is whether we are willing to do it and whether we dare to do it or not? We have not reached that stage yet but i do believe and hope that we are getting there. God bless and take care my friend.
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