Hi Lydon, by any chance have you ever read Dietrich Bonhoeffer Life Together? Your post here reminds me a great deal of parts of his first chapter on community. He writes of how in Christ and through Christ we are placed in a community not of our own creation nor choice and the true calling is to relate to people as ones Christ is redeeming. The take away I hear in both the book and your account here is how incredible relationships become when we begin to look deeper than the places we tend to stop. Good stuff.