Light Fix 10.01.10
It’s an old barn. Some people would call it a relic. It’s part of an era that maybe has gone by. It has many, many uses still though, and so we still use it. Some people want to tear it down, other people say no. I really like it. It reminds me of an era that perhaps was golden in this nation – a throwback to times when we didn’t lock our doors, when everybody knew everybody in the community, when we shared together so many wonderful things. Barns were used to house animals, to house farm implements, and then at times they were used for meetings, even square dances – lots of meaning, lots of uses. A bygone era – those days of community don’t exist like they once did.
Today we’re so busy. We have our lives so spread out. We are going here and going there and doing so many different things. But the idea of community has always been a part of society. God really wants us to live in community. No one can live in isolation. And so in this day, let the barn be a reminder to us – not just of a bygone era, or something of a relic from the past, but maybe a reminder of the way things used to be, and perhaps even the way they could be today – a coming back together, a pulling back together. No more isolationism, but joining together and living in community. Because it’s in community where we find strength, where we find unity, where we’re able to encourage and lift up one another.
Are you part of a community? Do you take part in some type of community activity? Every one of us needs to be connected to community. If you don’t have a community, why don’t you check one out this week? There are communities all around us – none perhaps greater than the community of the church. We’d like to invite you to come and join this community and be a part of the many small communities within theChurch. It will enrich your life. Perhaps it will take you back to another time, another era, when the barn was so very prominent. Every farm needed one – a reminder of good days, good times, a reminder of community.
Community. What a powerful word. Keepers of the wall – that’s really what it originally meant – helping one another out, watching out for one another. Community is so important.
