Church with Friends

Today Lynn, Kelly, Jon and I went for a short run in Lincoln Park and along the lakefront. Then we had breakfast and got ready for the 11AM church service. The church service was titled Dirt and I thought it was a good one. There were some good analogies. Even if you can take care of your own dirt how can you handle other people’s dirt? People are going to throw their trash at you and trample your garden. This is where he brought up the idea of composting. You can turn trash into good dirt through prayer, counseling, and communication. Also dirt needs to be rested and rotated. We need to not get into a pattern of doing the same thing all the time and not being creative with our gifts. Alos, a lot of us have portions of your life that are really good gardens but then we fenced off a little portion of trash. You can’t keep the trash without it eventually smelling up the rest of your garden. You have to take down the fence and work on the trash even though it will be hard. You might need someone’s help to pick out the stones and it might smell really bad at first Anyway- I really liked this analogy.
After Church we made a Pizza and then Kelly and Jon left around 2. Lynn left shortly after.