DeepFrequency and QuietStorm

 This Christmas we had a lot of quiet reflections about Christ and his coming with the message to love one-another. I as I drifted off to sleep I thought of all the forces in the world working against such a philosophy, and I rested in Jesus' words, "wherever two or more are gathered, there I am. To see that it it good."  With my wife, my lover, my partner Christine beside me I slept.  This day after Christmas I think of how few people I am connected to closely in Christ, with whom I can be one of the two gathered together. My earthly father said if a person had five people he could count as friends, he was lucky and doing well. That is about the case.  It occurs to me how fragile a situation of near alone-ness I am, and could be pushed into. And what consequences on strength of faith and sanity being forced into a life where being one with no other 'two' to gather with would be.  IMHO, we all hear the voices of the world all around us, as Jesus said, "let th...