More Rubbish.

We live on a busy road which has benefits; as everyone in town knows where your road is when you tell them the name, and it is easy to get too places as you are on a main road. There are also negative things; like traffic noise, speeding cars, and regular rubbish thrown out on your front lawn.

We often go for walks around our neighbourhood and have realised that the litter distribute is not even. In fact it appears that not many people have rubbish thrown on their lawns, just mainly the people on the large busier roads.
It reminds me of a saying I once heard that the more sheep you have in your pen, the more manure you will have. This is funny but a true principle that can be used in many areas of our lives and communities; both churched and un-churched.

There is a need to be aware of what environment we are in and expect/understand the level of mess that goes with that. You maybe a professional cleaner and work in different areas; one day you could be cleaning a small business office and the next day you could be cleaning out bins at a local high school where over one thousand students attend... one should not be suprised that the more traffic or people we encounter may also amount to more rubbish and mess and dramas..etc

Have you heard of the saying: if you don't like the heat, then get out of the kitchen.... I like this. Some people love the heat and love to be where the action is.. but we must remember that where the action is maybe mess and where all the people are then there is lots of manure too.

The moral of the story is if you can not survive with rubbish on your lawn or you can not cope with peoples dramas then you may be living on the wrong street. I am happy to live where I do, I enjoy being in the thick of it all - there is lots of mess but there are also lots of opportunities to help and get stuff done.

Blessings,

Akita.
24-5-07

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prayer: for the upcoming Youth Rally, held in Bunbury and part of the South West Games. Free event, Saturday 2nd June, @ s.w.sports centre, @ 7pm, guest speaker: Josh Fernandez, guest band: Oxygen Youth Band. Should be around 1,000 young people there on the night.

prayer: that ALL Christians around the world will hear clearly God's voice, learn to stay tuned in, and be bold enough to respond.

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1Peter 5 v 2

Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, serving as overseers -
not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be;
not greedy for money, but eager to serve; not lording it over those
entrusted to you, but by being examples to the flock.

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