The Mosaics came together by accident really. We all wanted to do this blogging thing right, and the experts said that a mastermind group was the way to go. So we set out to do just that. We met in a private, online group, about ten women who had never met, to learn about blogging, build a platform, and help each other out. The funny thing is I can’t really remember a time when that’s what we were about. Or when the shift occurred. Or even if there was a shift.
Before I knew it I was running to my computer to type out a prayer request. Not just any prayer request, either, I heart-felt, secret-type of prayer request. In only seconds responses poured through our little secret group. The Mosaics picked up my burden. They began praying. My circumstance began changing.
And so it continued. This small community of women, prayer warriors, sitting in homes in every corner of the country pouring out love for almost-complete-strangers.
Our name became our identity. Mosaics for Him – pictures for Him, of Him – because after all, God designed community. Way back when in that perfect Garden He created someone to pour out His love onto. Then He created another and another, eventually wanting community so much that He sent His One. All so we could be in community with Him.
We are all Mosaics – pictures of community with our Creator. We were made for community.
Community is messy and hard and sometimes not easy to come by, but it is necessary and essential and God-created. We live in a time when community is the hardest and yet the easiest all bundled together as one. (in)Courage helps to make it easier. (in)Courage is an online community for women. It is a mosaic of how God intended our lives to be lived – together – laughing, loving, praying, weeping, carrying one another’s burdens.
I want to invite you to a place where you can find community right where you are. It’s where the hard part of reality meets the ease of online and women come together in-real life. It’s the (in)RL Conference, and it’s free and happening all over the world – literally – on April 27th!
The (in)RL Conference is where women connect online and come together in-real life for a day of relaxing, laughing, eating, and learning a little more about doing community – the community God intended, with Him and with each other. It’s like a retreat that you don’t have to travel far away to attend!
You can register for (in)RL here, and find a meetup near you here. I will be attending (in)RL in North Carolina. I’d love to meet you there!
If you have any questions about (in)RL, please let me know!
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