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The Cost of Isolation
Weekly Edition #70: May 27th, 2026
Verse I Like:
“Then I said to them, ‘You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.’ And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, ‘Let us rise up and build.’ So they strengthened their hands for the good work.”
Weekly Dose
Thomas Edison didn’t just have a personal dream of a light bulb.
He had a vision of a brighter world. That vision drew others in.
Engineers, thinkers, workers. All of these people energized by a shared future.
Big dreams need many hands to become reality.
If your dream can be accomplished alone yourself, is it a big enough dream in the first place?
Quotes I Like:
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.”
Mane Message
Too often I take pride in myself for being fiercely individualistic. If I don't tackle something myself, I assume it won’t get done right.
I doubt I am the only person that gets these too-individualistic temptations.
We become so consumed with the “how”, or even the “how will I look” that we miss the “what.”
That is, the outcome. Or the accomplished goal. In doing so, we often shun help, as if accepting it somehow diminishes our worth or capability.
But Nehemiah’s story reminds us that rebuilding thrives through community. Nehemiah didn’t rebuild the wall alone; each family took their section. And the result was not just a wall, but a renewed sense of shared identity.
The Israelites were bank in more ways than one.
Refuse community-orientation leads us to flirt with becoming tyrants of our own small kingdoms. We try to control every brick and every detail, and in doing so, we lose sight of the bigger picture.
True rebuilding, true progress, requires humility and admitting that we can’t, and shouldn’t, do it all ourselves.
If we could do it alone, then are we really aiming high enough?
Weekly Ponder
Are you more focused on control or on completion?
Is the lone path really the most effective, or just the most familiar?
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