Listen

Look at how good and pleasing it is when families live together as one! It is like expensive oil poured over the head, running down onto the beard— Aaron’s beard!— which extended over the collar of his robes. It is like the dew on Mount Hermon streaming down onto the mountains of Zion, because it is there that the Lord has commanded the blessing: everlasting life.

Psalm 133

Think

My friends and I, when we are able to, like to have community dinners together. Everyone brings a dish they like to cook, and we spend time in fellowship together. Sometimes during these dinners, we trade stories back and forth, or even play a game where we all create a story together. It goes like this; each person takes a turn to add onto the story with only one sentence. Sometimes the stories are hilarious, other times they are romantic or dramatic, but in the end, we created something great together.

God rejoices in our fellowship together and in our ability to share our love for each other and for God. God rejoices in the ways we share our stories and build them together. Take some time to think about the ways you can encourage those around you to build their stories and seek out those who want to do the same. We are all covered in God’s love and promise, and we can experience it together.

Tori Crook

Pray

God of Goodness, I thank you for your love, your story, and your creation. I will continue to live into the goodness you have created for me, and to encourage others to do so in fellowship. Amen.

Go

God calls us to join the story of God’s goodness and creation.

Go and find where God is calling you, in the smallness and largeness of the world.

Go in fellowship, in love, and grow in the story that God has for us.