Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World

by Jennie Allen

You know what you were actually built for? Long, meaningful conversations with people who have known you for years and would donate their kidney if you needed it. People who drop by with pizza and paper plates unannounced because they missed you and aren’t afraid to intrude. Regular unscheduled and unhurried time with people who feel like family, even if they aren’t. The obvious few who scream with joy when you share your awesome news and cry with you when you share your hard stuff. People who show up early to help you cook and stay late to clean up. People who hurt you and who are hurt by you, but who choose to work through it with you instead of both of you quitting on each other. People who live on mission beside you, who challenge you and make you better. People who know they are your people, and you are theirs. People who belong to each other.