A new video blog where I’m chillin’ on my back porch musing about doing life with an amongst all you people.
Enjoy!
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A new video blog where I’m chillin’ on my back porch musing about doing life with an amongst all you people.
Enjoy!
You can also view it by going here: http://su.pr/9hWJ0z
Many people believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible’s creation story. There are whole conferences and lectures dedicated to defending this point of view. My position right now is that I don’t care.
Regardless of whether you take the Adam and Eve story literally, the point of the narrative is to create meaning. How would Christianity–or better yet, how would our neighborhoods look different if they embraced some of the significant meaning communicated in this story? How would things be different if we understood that…
Yummm…summertime….
Sunday– fresh picked blackberries from the field behind our house translated into homemade blackberry soda.
Monday– for dinner we ate a salad with lettuce from our garden. It was toped with yellow carrots and yellow tomatoes from our garden. The side dish was sautéed potatoes (dug up that morning from a local farm), yellow squash from our garden, fresh garlic (dug up that morning), purple bush beans from our garden (that strangely turn green when you cook them), and onions from the farm.
Tuesday– for breakfast we ate gluten free blackberry pancakes topped with maple syrup that was sucked from a maple tree in Virginia this morning…ok, that’s not true.
Tomorrow…who knows what the garden will bring!
You should be all about recycling. If you aren’t, you should be. If you’re a Christian you should be especially passionate about recycling. Recycling is core to the Christian message, recycling is just smart and common sense, recycling is better for our world (and our kids world).
Recycling is core to the Christian message if you consider the fact that in recycling you are taking something that is spent, used up, and old and giving it new life, purpose, and usefulness. Jesus said that he did not come to destroy the old stuff, but to fulfill/complete it. In other words, he doesn’t throw out the old stuff, he restores it and reinterprets it and gives it new meaning. Some words that can be tossed around here might be redemption, renovation, transformation, new creation, etc. Christians should be all about the idea of recycling. If God isn’t into restoring broken and old things, making them new, and bringing new life all of humanity is in trouble!
As a follower of Jesus, listed below are some of the ways both big and small that I think the invitation to recycle is available. It is obviously in no way an exhaustive list, and neither is it listed in any particular order. So without further adieu here are my top ten recycling habits:
I’m certain there are many other creative ways to recycle. Spend a few hours on Etsy.com and let your brain cram all the amazing and creative ways to recycle old materials. Shop at recycled stores, shop less, etc. There are so many ways we can embrace the beautiful opportunity to be a part of giving old, spent, and used up things new life and purpose. I mean, isn’t this what God does with humanity? Why should we do anything different?