Parker Palmer, a spiritual writer of the Quaker
tradition, says community is the place where the person you least want to live
with always lives. So community is not
like a place where you love each other sort of freely and warmly and
affectionately. Community is in fact the
place where you are purified, where your love is tested, where your childhood
of God is constantly put through the mill of human relationships. That is what community is. Community is a place where Judas always is
and sometimes it is just you.
--Henri Nouwen, Discovering Our Gift
Through Service to
Others (speech, 1994)
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