Weakness

Real community is only available to those who are willing to own their weakness.
– Mike Woodruff, The Friday Update

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Is weakness The Thing?

The thing I search for—subconsciously, maybe—in a church community? People who seem weak and okay with it, who embrace it, even let others help them? (How am I supposed to get a feel for that from a Sunday service?)

The thing that, above other qualities, helps me connect with a new friend?

The thing that—when admitted and paired with desperate pleas for help—endears us to God? Isn’t that what the Lord’s Prayer is about? Give us this day our daily bread [for we cannot provide for ourselves]; Forgive us our sins [for we cannot save ourselves]; Lead us not into temptation [for we so often lead ourselves straight into the fire]?

The thing that—more than anything else—is looked down upon in the West? But what if it’s the only antidote to self-sufficiency’s poison? And what if it’s the very thing that could save our civilization from downfall?