Community isn’t easy. It’s hard work. If we’ve been hurt, let down or put down too many times, we may think - why bother? Genesis 2:18 says, Then the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him. We weren’t made to live in isolation - even if relationships are hard sometimes. We were made for relationship. We can’t grow any other way. How else can we learn patience, love, forgiveness, kindness or gentleness?