thoughts about communities

We are three very different persons – and yet we care about one another, we try to be as considerate with one another as possible. Even though we don’t always understand the other’s opinion we still find each other again – could be in the next prayer, maybe during the next song, or even just when we start washing the dishes.

Thinking about this I experience a deep affirmation. I can be just as I am: I can have my opinion, my strenghts and weaknesses, my background, my biography, my wounds and problems, my beauty and my victories. And I’m welcome, just the way I am. It’s not necessary to change something or to be completely understood; completely accepted is enough.

All in all I experience a light-hearted giving and taking, both parts so interwined with one another that self love and the love to the other person can feel indistinguishable at times.

(Miriam)