"Wherever genuine community emerges in the midst of our fallen world God is present and working.”

Community...a word that Taylor throws around like it is nothing. And well, it becomes nothing to us.

Here I am, sitting at a table in the top of the dining commons. Just asking people to simply sign up for YC. Give back to people, be servants, not a big deal. However, here is what I see from the "community" of Taylor University: scowls, rude comments, and just straight up ignorance. Why does this annoy me so much? Well let me tell you why...It is what we proclaim above all things. We proclaim to be "intentional community," but the way that I have been treated is not so intentional. Why do we hold this above all things when I see it the least most of the time. I know that we do have some intentional community within our campus and within different groups, but what about the bigger community? We join every week to come together to worship our creator, but where's that worship in the way that we live? Where is that worship in the community that we should be showing to others?

I know that I sound like a cry baby and that I am even preaching to the choir when I talk about these things, but the truth of the matter is that I am upset about this. I am getting so sick and tired of watching us be so selfish and only caring about ourselves. As I see people mock YC and "not have time" to even house a student, all I can think is selfishness. We do not have time to help students see who God really is. We do not have time to bring community outside of our walls and into the bigger community of God. We do not have time to show others that we truly love God above all things. We are so busy with life. We are already involved in something. We are already giving enough of our time. God does not deserve any more of our time. And even if we really do not have time then we should be jerks to those who ask for our time. Real Christ-like.

"I'm so in love with you, whatever you want to do is alright with me, cause you make me feel so brand new, and I want to spend my life with you. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky? How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning. Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. I get no kick out of champagne, mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all so tell me why it should be true that I get a kick out of you? I love love, I love being in love, I don't care what it does to me. You had me at hello. One, your my dream come true, two, just want to be with you, three, it's plain to see that you are in love with me. I'll make love to you, like you want me to. I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy, thinking about you lately. Come away with me and we'll kiss pn a mountaintop come away with me
and I'll never stop loving you. Ain't no mountain high, ain't no valley low that's going to keep me from getting to you babe."

Happy Valentine's Day