Healing happens in community.
That’s what I have been turning over and over in my heart.
One of the great tragedies of this season - this season of quarantine and social distancing - is that we don’t get close to the people who could facilitate healing in our lives.
“It is not good for man to be alone,” God said and He is saying it still. We were not made to be solitary. There are things that can only be faced when we are facing them side by side.
Many right now are drawing in and keeping things close. There’s only so much you can share via FaceTime or over Zoom. God created us to live life on life, woven together. The analogy used in Scripture is of a body…you cannot dismember it and expect it to be fully functional and healthy. Could you keep a brain and heart six feet apart and expect life?
The battles that many are facing require an army - brothers and sisters to hold up weary arms and prayerfully wage war beside. To retreat from togetherness is to embrace defeat.
Am I overstating the stakes?
I don’t think so.