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		<title>&#8220;COMMUNITY&#8221;  Thought for the Day [Snippet]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We need community</span></strong></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia; color: #800000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Community is a place where we gather to connect one with another.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia; color: #800000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To develop a safe place within community is a joint effort requiring safety and care.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia; color: #800000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Support groups offer a caring community within the larger community, offering helpful and positive structures that extend healing and hope to many.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia; color: #800000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Incorporating healthy community in an established group is not always easy. A wise leader will offer appropriate guidelines.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia; color: #800000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is a joy when community brings out the best in people. It is a delight when community helps someone overcome the hard things.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia; color: #800000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Within the church, a safe community will foster greater opportunity for loving grace and spiritual growth, offering a healing balm for wounded souls.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia; color: #800000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Everyone must do their part for trust to be established and for true community of exchange to be developed.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia; color: #800000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Community takes time to establish.</strong></span></p>
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