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Due to travel and business commitments, I have not been at my church for the last four Sundays.  I find myself feeling as if part of my identity is slipping away. 

 

I think of my church — a small and diverse collection of Episcopalians — as my faith family.  Though of varying views, political opinions, and backgrounds, we have at least two things in common: One is a need for something greater than ourselves to fill that yawning pothole in our souls and to respond to that whispering truth that there is something more than earth, air, fire and water in this world.  The other is a belief — sometimes wavering, sometimes solid as Gibraltar, sometimes certain, sometimes tentative — that God is that something more.  We come together to celebrate, dine together on the Holy Eucharist, pray together and strengthen each other.

 

My point:  Family strengthens and defines us and helps us remember who we are.  If you have a faith family you need, remember that it needs you, too.  If you do not have a community of believers, seek until you find one.  And then share and strengthen it, just as it strengthens you.  — jri

 

“For where two or three come together

in my name, there am I with them.”

        –    Jesus Christ

               (Matthew 18:20)