My friend Linda and I had a great time with our Youth girls small group this weekend. We had a sleepover at Linda's and spent a lot of time talking while we put together and decorated gingerbread houses and a gingerbread church to auction at our church's Harvest Festival next weekend. It was quite an undertaking and while the results were pretty fantastic the process was most rewarding. While building and creating I thought about the time and energy and effort we all put into making our lives just so, maybe it is appearance or decor and maybe it is truly strong to the foundation, nevertheless, how little or how much does it take in life to destroy the veneer if the foundation is not so strong? What if you have not taken the time to do the real hard, dirty work? It made me think of the passage in matthew 7 about the wise and the foolish builders...24"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
Who knows how much money we will raise for the church as a result of our labor, one thing is sure the time we spent building was priceless!
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