Last night the entire household (including the extras who came for the friendship meal) worked in our garden to prepare it for the upcoming barbecue. There's something incredibly edifying about working together. For a moment people are bound with a sense of unity, if for just a moment...
I have often thought that if I needed to make a set of people into a team I'd put them on a sailing boat together. That kind of situation means you have to trust each other and work as a unit. You learn to get on
But these things aren't the same as living in community... community is more. It's a laying your life down for your brother - permanently. And there you find real unity.
Nonetheless, last night it was enjoyable, working together in the evening sun.
Glad 2C U learnt something from yr dad (ex R Marine - now wher did I put my green beret?!!!) about life aboard ship. Don't 4get my invite 2 barbQ, ie if yr mates don't mind an argumentative apostate in their midst!
ReplyDeleteIt's true that putting people together in a sailing boat makes them 'pull' together.On crewing a sailing ship you learn to look out for each other..
ReplyDelete; ) The TJ
when hearts see the kingdom there is a preciousness of working for the casue that is etrernal
ReplyDeleteI had the honour and pleasure on saturday night after we had cleared up after the wedding of sitting and listening to some of the accounts from some of the saints that were around when we bought the farm 30 years ago and they we discribing the call to pick fruit and stuff at the farm they were saying how they saw it as a case of God had given them the crop and it was up to the saints to gather in the blessing that God had bestowed. tehy talked about the joy of building brotherhood as they worke till sunset
I found my heart longing for that depth of relationship to be with the saints 24/7 to build for eterntiy even in the simple things
i was challenged if there was a farm call to go pick the crop would i find and excuse would i be to busy it is not abut he work it is about building eternal brotherhood
bring back the simplicity God please
then i realised that i am often to busy to go out and see the harvest that is out there
ReplyDeletethe poor and the hungry and the dying those that are going to hell becasue i am too busy to say yes i am going out on the streets to bring in the harvest that is out there in this dying world
Aww convection of the father
so will we go when the call to go bring in the harvest even if it is freezing cold out there on the streets my heart longs to say yes but the reality is that with out jesus i know that i will turn away and say i am too busy i realised that i spend so much time ssaying i am too busy to build for jesus time to reasess thanks tschaka your entry might not have been intended to convict in this way but coupled with saturdays conversations i realised that i am a lazt saint and need to re proritise sorry for taking up yoiur blog