Sherman on the Mount: Intellectual/Emotional Vegetation

So much has happened throughout my past week in South Africa. Both happy and sad, pleasurable and painful... But this is the weekend, and after an entire week of emotional drain from ministerial work, I am allowing myself to be a dysfunctional-up-to-no-good-nothing-useful-to-offer-stay-out-of-my-way loafer.

It is nice to find opportunities to vegetate occasionally and free one's self from the routines of intellectual and emotional rigours. Today is such a day.

So the answer for me this morning was to join my friend in the yard in a self-indulging session of shooting tin cans with an air rifle. Sometimes a little boy's gotta do what a little boy's gotta do.

And yet, amidst that moment of letting loose, there is a deep sense of reality of the Kingdom of God in our midst...even while shooting tin cans. When we are conscious of the work of God in building his Kingdom, we are connected to that reality always. Or at least that's how it should be.

Mum, if you're reading this blog...I'm sorry I've been naughty!