With the sun setting around six o clock and little work to do outside, life turns starkly indoor. With no TV to keep us entertained at night, we are forced to look to each other for entertainment. This often looks like people sitting at the same table from completely different social and ethnic backgrounds bonding over a mutual experience, a card game. Four people, all of who just strangers a couple days ago, are playing against each other and howling for the same cause: fun. Everyone is invited to join, no matter the experience level, and everyone participating feels the joy that is increasingly harder to find in our technological obsessed culture. This joy comes from an instantaneous and temporary community formed around a game. For me living in the Catholic Worker has allowed me to live in a place where people are united from human experiences and love instead of being divided by things like social standing and race. The Bethany House has been a place for us to try living in accordance with the new law that God has given us, the law of love. In this way living in the house has been an experiment in building the society that Christ modeled. And it works! Working against everything that is normally assumed as rational behavior, the Catholic Worker has not only been able to keep our doors open, but be a community to those who need it most. Like Kierkegaard’s “leap of faith” those living in the house have made a leap, living in a completely irrational lifestyle, only to find that we have landed in a place filled with peace and love for our fellow person.