rejected?

i am not at all faithful to blogging. have tried it a few different times and lasted a few months before just giving up on it completely. i hate to admit it, but my best thoughts are found while mowing the grass. just me, the lawnmower and isreal, charlie hall or whoever is playing on the ipod. if i could find someway to harness the creativity, the insight i have when simply pushing the lawnmower life (and this blog) would indeed be easier.
(they say Sam Walton carried a recorder everywhere he went and faithfully used the thing to turn wal mart into the huge monopoly it is today. no good idea was ever wasted and the bad ones were sifted thru and forgotten.)
anyway, got me thinking. how many times are our ideas left on the table to die? they just weren't important enough to consider, didn't have enough flare to justify the time spent or just too darn hard to fulfill. i would venture to say that a lot of our forgotten ideas are better than the ones we put into practice. the return more valuable because the time spent.

today was not a lawn day so bear with me and lets see if my idea of the moment is worth anything: viewing souls in the same light that i view my ideas.

some of us are a perfect fit. easy to love, eager to learn, therefore, our souls are worth fighting for. others of us are a little rough around the edges. maybe we question traditions? or we have a past that scares folks? we will make it a little more than difficult for you to reach us. our walls are built high and they are built thick but with a little persistence and a whole lot of God we can be touched and eventually touch the lives of others like us.
i have turned my back on many that seemed too hard. heck, i have on more than one occasion turned on myself. given up because all the skeletons in my past. it has become more habit and not even recognized. the kid on the street that has 8 brothers and sisters, no father and an absent mother is too hard to be saved. his oldest brother is in prison and that's where he'll end up. too much work to do to save this one kid when there are so many easier souls to deal with.

we have been so wrong to shelve difficult souls the same way we do with tough ideas. one soul in Christ is as equal as any other, however, the harder God works thru you to reach the most desperate, the most unwinable the greater the hunger to do it again. we have missed the bus on so many folks/ ideas just because we were scared of the fight. God bless 1 timothy 1:15


"we know about remorse and death. But do we know about hope and life? I believe in life after birth!" maxie dunham