For today’s reflection post, I wanted to share a video about Theologian Dwight Peterson and the power of shared faith as a community of believers. Unfortunately, I am unable to embed the video, so I have to share the link for the page where it exists.
http://www.theworkofthepeople.com/losing-my-faith
The following is the synopsis about this video: Theologian Dwight Peterson on the story of the healing of the paralytic in Mark 2 and how others hold our faith when we don’t have any and doubt is prevailing. Dwight has been on hospice (at home) since July 16, 2012, due to deterioration and infection of his hips and pelvis, secondary to the paraplegia he has lived with since 1979. Hospice is for people who are probably in the last six months of life, so no one expected Dwight to still be around now. We’re glad he is.
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Daily Devotion 
I finally made the time to watch this. What a beautiful interruption in the individual faith I was brought up with. As I have read more and more from the Jesuits and the mystic monks, I have a gained a great understanding that while, yes, this faith journey is one of a personal relationship, it is not to the exclusion of the collective community of faith. What a fresh understanding of that story lived out vividly in his life. Thank you for sharing this.