Living a week of meaningful connections and doing life with friends.
Most of us want to do life together with friends and family. Yet, the reality of our lives often determines that there's little time for hanging out or we don't have too many of those kinds of friends - the kind that we can actually do life with. Sometimes we don't know how to make that happen as we spend time with people.
It seems like most often we briefly interact with people over a business lunch, at the mailbox, with another parent at school, in the foyer at church, or in the grocery store. Teenagers seem to hang out with scores of people but none of those connections seem to run deep. So, who do we share life with and how?
Really Doing Life Together
Last week I wrote about training and and finding your fit. The week before I wrote about people connecting. One of the core values of Semper Vita revolves around doing life together in meaningful ways - whether that is through developing deeper friendships or by finding out more about yourself so that you can be more authentic and transparent, or through doing life with others by volunteering in ways that make a difference in the world.
This week I did life together with several friends - some new some friends and some old friends. I connected on the phone with a friend who's moved and we encouraged each other. I walked with a friend and we discussed Semper Vita and life. I coached a person regarding her MBTI and she feels validated and wants to improve her relationships. I also worked with friends at one of our partner churches to discuss training leaders. And there were more of these meaningful times. In all these connections, we did life together, we shared stories, and we prayed for each other.
I just love Semper Vita and how it's all about people - people connecting with people to help people. It really is about experiencing life through service in community. How's your life? How's your community?
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