Creating Community

That moment.

That moment when you drive out the lane for a quick (1 ½ hour) trip to pick up the dog from surgery and the moment you drive out the lane a ferocious storm hits.  That moment when your mom intuition kicks into gear and a look at the tree gymnastics in the wind make you wonder what would happen if a tree came down and two hours stretched into three and you turn around to pick up your just fed baby so your husband doesn’t get stuck with a screaming, starving child.  That moment when the rain hits hard as you drive back in the lane and you are soaked completely through before you get her buckled.

That moment when you drive back out the lane for the second time and steer your nearly bald tires through debris as thick as your wrist and know you made the right decision even if the extra five minutes was what got you soaked.  That moment when you’re not even ten miles down the road and you stop because the right lane is the taken up with a tree that toppled and the left lane is taken up by the tractor trailer that wrecked trying to avoid it.  That moment when you realize the accident probably happened in the last five minutes and you tremble because had you not turned around, your baby may have screamed for her mommy for a lot longer than three hours.

Sometimes God works in the tiniest, every day miracles through a little bit of intuition and the things that didn’t happen.

Sometimes community happens over a cup of coffee or a neighborhood cookout. It’s a hello wave and stopping to chat when you’re out walking.

But the night you go walking and one neighbor lets your ten year old target practice with his gun and you band together with another to cut up a tree and clear the road …. That’s when you know you live in an amazing neighborhood.

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