So many times we are alone in our struggles with spirituality. But in community we find partners to lean on and interact with as we go through the amorphous and sometimes arduous process of growing more mature and healthier spiritually.

Music: Love One Another by Newsboys A Song of Peace; Lean on Me

Scripture: 1 Peter 2:1; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; Matthew 9:35-38; Romans 1:12; Ephesians 5:15-21; James 5:8,9,11-16,19

Reading from Henri Nouwen’s Here and Now on befriending our sorrow and the need to open ourselves to others and their help

Video: Newsboys’ Love One Another; Quaker Speak; Communal living at Pennington Friend’s House NY NY. Todd Drake.