Mom Heart Moments #142

Just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

SOMETIMES I AM SO INTENT on keeping my head down and hand to the plow that I don’t even recognize my need for other women. In days of old, people were born into and lived in their communities their whole lives. They knew their neighbors, and when they hung the laundry out to dry, they chatted over the fence with them. When they needed to borrow a cup of sugar, they went next door to that same friend they had known for years. Parents often lived in the same house as their adult children, and aunts and uncles and cousins would live nearby too.

Now, we live apart. Many of us attend churches of thousands, which are not in our neighborhoods. We don’t usually know our neighbors, and we often have no values or background in common with those neighbors, anyway. So, we become used to fending for ourselves, until eventually we find ourselves exhausted, wanting to give up, and wondering where God has gone.

God’s design was always for us to live in community. The family was to be a large group living together, loving each other, and sharing life and traditions together. There would be lots of children with similar values and close relationships, so moms could actually have a few minutes alone while the children played and ran and had wholesome fun.

No wonder Satan works so hard at creating isolation among us —because when we are alone in our homes, we naturally compromise our ideals, become discouraged, and listen to his voice of discouragement.

Is there any way you can make changes in your life so you might experience more of this community God designed you for?