Last year we learned how much we need community. How desperately we as women need people in our lives to just surround us during the good, the bad, the hard and the hopeful. So last summer we took the inRL DVD and showed it to more women in our church. More women who sat as they watched nodding their heads because we never knew what we needed until we found it. That group of 5 grew into a group of 7 who desired to keep going and growing together. We have loved. We have shared. We have welcomed 4 new women to a committed group of 11 now meeting each week. We have walked paths together with tears and joy. We have counted a thousand gifts together. And this spring, we sat around a little bigger table and shared our stories. We were real. We learned that without sharing our stories, we cannot walk in true community. And every single story is important.
So now, we continue on. We sit and laugh around a table with Christ in the center. We know the road we each travel and we are eager to walk along that road with one another.
In Real Life changed my heart toward my church. In Real Life brought me to a community of women I wouldn't have reached out to before then. In Real Life brought me new friends and new smiles and a new found appreciation for all the journeys we walk hand in hand with Christ. In Real Life made me get real and has forever changed me because I now have a community. And having a community makes all the difference.
