it means the uncondititional yes to belonging, as Br. David once stated it what it means to take refuge to Sangha; giving and receiving always with an eye on the well being of others and of all, interacting in loving care and respect, able to apologize as well as recognize, laughing and sometimes crying together, aware that we all belong together, doing our best to each contributing our possible talents and abilities to make life unfolding and blossom for all. It sometimes means hard work, disappointment, grief, and in the same time hope, learning to trust and always awareness of our spiritual community which never can get hurt and in depth always means utter beauty to me..
Love the word of the day also! Yes we need community in all shapes and forms to help support and guide us in this journey called Life!
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving week-end all 🍂
Community means many things to me. It is where we come together, guide one another, help each other. We share, care & love each other. We accept & honor 1 another. We support each other as needed. We are not judged. We can let “our hair down” & be who we are. We can be our authentic selves. We teach 1 another & learn from each other.
I love this community & am so grateful for All who participate here. I can feel the love & acceptance. Thank you kindly. 🙏🏻
🕊️♥️
PKR, it’s exactly what keeps me coming here every morning answering the daily grateful living question and popping in and out commenting on other people’s answers.
I liked today’s ‘Word’
because it didn’t restrict the concept of community
to a specific place . . .
it reached out and broadened my perspective
on what community is to me.
I don’t have much physical community
in the space where I live.
I have relationships with a few people,
but the twain will never meet.
Perhaps my most important community
is with people I have never met,
and will probably never meet in the flesh.
It is through the Gratefulness website
that I have found ‘my people’ . . .
you folks here,
and my beloved original forum.
I feel held in these places,
and am not afraid to share who I am
and who I am not.
You are my soul connection.
You also connect me with myself . . .
I see me in you,
and you in me.
That bond will never leave my heart
as we all come and go.
Death has taken some of my dearest,
most treasured members of online communities,
and they are as dear to me
as those in the physical world I live in.
I am so very grateful for this place
and for every person who has shared here.
You have enriched
and continue to nourish my spirit.
It is you who make me wise
and you who help me to see my value.
Thank you
from the bottom of my heart. ♥
Community means support and safety. Right now the topic of sexual assault comes to mind , again. This is a topic that communities need to support each other. Time and time again people are being hurt. To me community needs to care and protect each other. Community that is based on Truth lives and coexists peacefully.
After what just happened to me I’m going to go fo arc to get help and file charges so that it doesn’t happen to anyone else. Community shows solidarity in safety and support. Silence on things that matter doesn’t help anyone . Thank you you for your support.
Community to me means those that stand with you when you need them and you with them. Community is those that don’t judge you even if they don’t understand you. They just love you regardless.
To me a community is a group of people that I care about, who also care about me. I am in touch with those in my community on a regular basis. Community means belonging.
Very good question! I define community as a group of peoples with a set of shared values or interests that brings them together. They may connect online, by conference call, in person, or via online email/social media platforms. I don’t know if there’s still walk-in talkie or ham radio groups. There’s often a shared “activity” when a community gathers. The activity varies from habitat for humanity to spiritual or religious oriented rituals. I belong to a variety of communities and am grateful for each group and for those who call themselves “a member.” Prayers sent out for you who’re traveling by whatever means. Abundant Blessings of Peace as we enter Thanksgiving weekend ☮️🫶🏽
Community for me forms around interest, life experience, purpose, or geography.
I’m a “member” of the bike community–people who ride bikes have a certain bond because we’ve all experienced what it’s like to ride on roads that have no safe place for us. I wave or smile at every passing rider whether I know them or not because we’re in community. When I’m walking I can still smile at them but I’m doing so from a place outside the bike community. They can’t tell just by looking at me walking along that I’m also one of them. This reminds me that sometimes communities are defined as much by who’s out as who’s in, which lies at the root of many problems we face today.
I’ve been in many communities formed by purpose: work groups, professional organizations, the various nonprofits I’ve volunteered for. I don’t have to like everyone I encounter there to recognize that we’re in community working toward shared goals.
I’ve lived in several places over the last few years after being in one town for a long time. I definitely feel a much stronger sense of community with the people I encounter in Olympia than in some of the Seattle neighborhoods I lived in. People here are warm and welcoming, helpful, friendly.
All of you create such a wonderful community here. I’m glad I found this space and made it a practice to visit daily. I hope you all find peace, comfort and community in the next few days, whatever they hold for you.
Thinking about the Word For The Day, and defining community as a group of people, and not necessarily the place or the “community” that I live in, I would say that, to me, it means a group of people that I am part of and accepted and supported by. Maybe even a certain mutual dependency.
It seems I have spent my life assembling and pulling together and joining “families” to be part of. It must be important to me. I’m sure it stems from having a not very stable birth family. It’s almost a survival instinct. As the groups that I have been and am part
of, have played crucial rolls in my life. I am grateful for these amazing people that have welcomed me.
To me, community means a group of beings in which each being can feel comfortable being authentic, being themselves, and in which there is care and love for one another.
Community is about connection.
It’s knowing who you can call when you need help—or when you know they’ll point you to the right person or resource. But community isn’t static; it changes with the chapters of life.
The parents who supported each other when our kids were in daycare aren’t always the same ones helping with rides to soccer practice or play rehearsals now. At work, those of us lucky enough to have a team that helps and depends on each other know how much that matters.
For us, it’s the main reason we stay at our church: it’s a community that supports one another and cares for our neighbors. They’ve been there for us when we needed them most.
But here’s the truth—you have to show up to build community. If you never go to a practice, go to church, show up to pass out food on Saturday or decorate the church for Christmas or be at the kids school events, you can’t meet others, and they won’t know you’re willing to help or provide the help when you need it.
Community grows when we invest usually time more than money in it.
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it means the uncondititional yes to belonging, as Br. David once stated it what it means to take refuge to Sangha; giving and receiving always with an eye on the well being of others and of all, interacting in loving care and respect, able to apologize as well as recognize, laughing and sometimes crying together, aware that we all belong together, doing our best to each contributing our possible talents and abilities to make life unfolding and blossom for all. It sometimes means hard work, disappointment, grief, and in the same time hope, learning to trust and always awareness of our spiritual community which never can get hurt and in depth always means utter beauty to me..
You have said it all,
dear Ose,
as you usually do. ♥
Love the word of the day also! Yes we need community in all shapes and forms to help support and guide us in this journey called Life!
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving week-end all 🍂
Community means many things to me. It is where we come together, guide one another, help each other. We share, care & love each other. We accept & honor 1 another. We support each other as needed. We are not judged. We can let “our hair down” & be who we are. We can be our authentic selves. We teach 1 another & learn from each other.
I love this community & am so grateful for All who participate here. I can feel the love & acceptance. Thank you kindly. 🙏🏻
🕊️♥️
Likewise dear PKR.
The Divine in me
bows to the Divine in you,
dear PKR . . . ♥
PKR, it’s exactly what keeps me coming here every morning answering the daily grateful living question and popping in and out commenting on other people’s answers.
I liked today’s ‘Word’
because it didn’t restrict the concept of community
to a specific place . . .
it reached out and broadened my perspective
on what community is to me.
I don’t have much physical community
in the space where I live.
I have relationships with a few people,
but the twain will never meet.
Perhaps my most important community
is with people I have never met,
and will probably never meet in the flesh.
It is through the Gratefulness website
that I have found ‘my people’ . . .
you folks here,
and my beloved original forum.
I feel held in these places,
and am not afraid to share who I am
and who I am not.
You are my soul connection.
You also connect me with myself . . .
I see me in you,
and you in me.
That bond will never leave my heart
as we all come and go.
Death has taken some of my dearest,
most treasured members of online communities,
and they are as dear to me
as those in the physical world I live in.
I am so very grateful for this place
and for every person who has shared here.
You have enriched
and continue to nourish my spirit.
It is you who make me wise
and you who help me to see my value.
Thank you
from the bottom of my heart. ♥
Thank YOU, Sparrow ♥️
♥
❤️🕊️
Muchas gracias,
querido Joseph. ♥
Community means support and safety. Right now the topic of sexual assault comes to mind , again. This is a topic that communities need to support each other. Time and time again people are being hurt. To me community needs to care and protect each other. Community that is based on Truth lives and coexists peacefully.
After what just happened to me I’m going to go fo arc to get help and file charges so that it doesn’t happen to anyone else. Community shows solidarity in safety and support. Silence on things that matter doesn’t help anyone . Thank you you for your support.
Community to me means those that stand with you when you need them and you with them. Community is those that don’t judge you even if they don’t understand you. They just love you regardless.
To me a community is a group of people that I care about, who also care about me. I am in touch with those in my community on a regular basis. Community means belonging.
Community means belonging — yes, Mary, that sums it up nicely.
Very good question! I define community as a group of peoples with a set of shared values or interests that brings them together. They may connect online, by conference call, in person, or via online email/social media platforms. I don’t know if there’s still walk-in talkie or ham radio groups. There’s often a shared “activity” when a community gathers. The activity varies from habitat for humanity to spiritual or religious oriented rituals. I belong to a variety of communities and am grateful for each group and for those who call themselves “a member.” Prayers sent out for you who’re traveling by whatever means. Abundant Blessings of Peace as we enter Thanksgiving weekend ☮️🫶🏽
Community for me forms around interest, life experience, purpose, or geography.
I’m a “member” of the bike community–people who ride bikes have a certain bond because we’ve all experienced what it’s like to ride on roads that have no safe place for us. I wave or smile at every passing rider whether I know them or not because we’re in community. When I’m walking I can still smile at them but I’m doing so from a place outside the bike community. They can’t tell just by looking at me walking along that I’m also one of them. This reminds me that sometimes communities are defined as much by who’s out as who’s in, which lies at the root of many problems we face today.
I’ve been in many communities formed by purpose: work groups, professional organizations, the various nonprofits I’ve volunteered for. I don’t have to like everyone I encounter there to recognize that we’re in community working toward shared goals.
I’ve lived in several places over the last few years after being in one town for a long time. I definitely feel a much stronger sense of community with the people I encounter in Olympia than in some of the Seattle neighborhoods I lived in. People here are warm and welcoming, helpful, friendly.
All of you create such a wonderful community here. I’m glad I found this space and made it a practice to visit daily. I hope you all find peace, comfort and community in the next few days, whatever they hold for you.
Thank you Barb. Fellow cyclist here, waving from a few states away!
You too Barb💗
Thank you Barb.
Thinking about the Word For The Day, and defining community as a group of people, and not necessarily the place or the “community” that I live in, I would say that, to me, it means a group of people that I am part of and accepted and supported by. Maybe even a certain mutual dependency.
It seems I have spent my life assembling and pulling together and joining “families” to be part of. It must be important to me. I’m sure it stems from having a not very stable birth family. It’s almost a survival instinct. As the groups that I have been and am part
of, have played crucial rolls in my life. I am grateful for these amazing people that have welcomed me.
Me too,
dear Charlie,
including you. ♥
To me, community means a group of beings in which each being can feel comfortable being authentic, being themselves, and in which there is care and love for one another.
Being authentic is so important to me, Elizabeth.
Same here, Mary. Anything that’s real lasts longer.
Individuals caring about each other inside of one collective body, working for a common good. I am grateful to you all for being here.
I like that, Drea. No personal gain or agendas.
Loc, a community rich in personal gain and agendas sounds completely and utterly exhausting.
Community means giving and receiving. It is caring and compassion. It is showing up and participating.
Yes,
dear Yram . . .
showing up
is an important component . . .
I work on that. ♥
Community means togetherness to me.
Community is about connection.
It’s knowing who you can call when you need help—or when you know they’ll point you to the right person or resource. But community isn’t static; it changes with the chapters of life.
The parents who supported each other when our kids were in daycare aren’t always the same ones helping with rides to soccer practice or play rehearsals now. At work, those of us lucky enough to have a team that helps and depends on each other know how much that matters.
For us, it’s the main reason we stay at our church: it’s a community that supports one another and cares for our neighbors. They’ve been there for us when we needed them most.
But here’s the truth—you have to show up to build community. If you never go to a practice, go to church, show up to pass out food on Saturday or decorate the church for Christmas or be at the kids school events, you can’t meet others, and they won’t know you’re willing to help or provide the help when you need it.
Community grows when we invest usually time more than money in it.
So true, Kelli Lynn. It is through effort and showing up that a community stays alive and thriving.
Thanks for the reflection. I am glad you showed up here.
Well-said, Kelli Lynn!