The famous preacher and poet, John Donne said nearly 500 years ago, “No man is an island; no man stands alone. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. Any man’s death diminishes me.”

When God Almighty created the world and everything that is in it, he failed to get it just right the first time around. He who made the beasts of the field and the birds of the air discovered Adam lacked a suitable helper. The Lord God said to himself, “It is not good for man to be alone, I will make a helper suitable for him.”

We are made for community. Without community, we find ourselves lonely, isolated, and limited. With apologies to Frank Sinatra, my goal in life is not to do it my way, but to do it God’s way. God’s way includes others: mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncle…