While preparing for an adult study class I read words with which I agree and find quite meaningful. They are written by Gerald May, a medical doctor who practices psychotherapy in Washington, DC. He conveys the importance of community in the healing process:
"God's grace through community involves something far greater than other people's support and perspective. The power of grace is nowhere as brilliant nor as mystical as in communities of faith. Its power includes not just love than comes from people and through people but love that pours forth among people, as if through the very spaces between one person and next. Just to be in such an atmosphere is to be bathed in healing power."
