Communion

The shared union of believers, joining together, remembering Christ's love as it is played out in our common life. I desire this badly. However, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer said (something close to the following) : If you fall in love with your ideal of community, you will destroy it. If you care about and love the people around you, you will find yourself in community.
How bad I am at this! I know just what sort of ideal I have in my head, but I get so frustrated with the people around me. If I would stop idealizing what could be, I might be able to care enough for others to impact them for change and, much greater, change myself in the process. Right now I find myself very frustrated with some close friends, and I am at a loss as to how to talk to them about it. I have the opportunity in a few minutes to go directly and serve them with a humble attitude, even though I don't agree wit hwhat they are doing. A stated goal of our shared community is to help other organizations on our campus achieve their goals. This looks great on paper, until I disagree wit hthe goals and/or the means through which these goals are accomplished. I am frustrated because my friends are in both my organization, and the one I am committed to helping succeed, even though I disagree with their methods. I don't know how to talk to my friends about the conflict in values that I see. Frankly, I don't think they are even viewing the situation through the same paradigm as I am. It is really tough, but I'm going to go over there now, and do what I have committed to do. Moreover, I'm going to do the tougher thing and talk to them about it sometime next week. Pray for me.