I’ve been reading quite a few books lately on the power of community in healing. It was interesting to me that in the book “Finding your people” by Jennie Allen, she mentioned that the first step to building community is to build a fire pit.

I have so many dreams for Teaberry Acres and THE121. I knew my first dream, before reading Allen’s book was a fire pit and for the very reason of community. Community happens around fire, and this was the premise of another book “What Happened to you” by Oprah Winfrey.

From the beginning of time fire was important for survival so of course people would gather around it. I could go on about this subject for awhile but alas you came here to read about THE121.

So today I moved one step closer to community gathering. With the help of my friend Giavanni we made the fire pit look just a little nicer. There’s still a few finishing touches to be done. But I am looking forward to gathering around the fire.

I’m looking forward to laughter, singing, eating, sharing stories and deep conversations. I am looking forward to community. My prayer is that you will join me here, around the fire at teaberry acres.