"Community is a messy thing." ~ Brooke Peterson "Community brings out the best in us. And the worst. Community life brings a painful revelation of our limitations, weaknesses and darkness; the unexpected discovery of the monsters within us ishard to accept. The immediate reaction is to try to destroy the monsters, or to hide them away again, pretending that they don't exist,or to flee from community life and relationships with others, or to find that the monsters are theirs, not ours. But if we accept that the monsters are there, we can let them out and learn to tame them. That is growth towards liberation." ~ John Perkins, With Justice For All, p141