Monday Rambling

Reflections?
Writer’s Block…
Another season has ended - the Easter Season - the Passion Play season
There are only 6 weeks of school left and finally the month of the bitter wind seems to have blown itself out.

Leviticus 19:23-25 (New Living Translation)
“When you enter the land and plant fruit trees, leave the fruit unharvested for the first three years and consider it forbidden. Do not eat it. In the fourth year the entire crop must be consecrated to the Lord as a celebration of praise. Finally, in the fifth year you may eat the fruit. If you follow this pattern, your harvest will increase. I am the Lord your God.

We will soon be entering our third year of ministry at the Mission on the Bisti. I need to remember that is took 9 years for God to fulfill His promise to restore us to this ministry - I tend to be very impatient. My son Jeremiah, the one interested in horticulture, pointed out these verses from Leviticus. He indicated that we shouldn’t expect a great harvest until the 4th or 5th year.
I know I am learning as we go along. Last year’s Back to School event wasn’t very well attended. But that was ok because we had not gotten as many donations of school supplies as I had expected. The Christmas Vacation Bible School was a good idea, but we got snowed out. Which was probably a good thing - because I saw some flaws in the plan. Last week we had an Easter Egg Coloring Party - it was fun and messy but only the church kids came in spite of the advertising and personal invitations. We just aren’t growing. Our outreach efforts don’t seem to be producing fruit. And I get discouraged.

But I need to remember the theme of this blog of mine. “To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven” And I need to remember my own sermon - don’t fret - wait patiently for the LORD, do good and trust the LORD. Ok, yeah…time for dinner. Maybe the piece I write for the ministry site will be of more significance than this rambling. But the pictures are good - our Church Kids at Passion Play, Pastor Art playing Peter, and the Easter Egg Coloring party.