Registration

I have decided to set up a blog to post our thoughts and keep with theme of L2L; I have decided that I would periodically post to this blog.  Post some thoughts; communicate plans; etc.

Saturday at 8:00 was the official registration day for the L2L organization.  It is hard to believe how quickly the L2L program has grown!  We registered over 50 into the program; 5 puppet teams; a debate team; 2 Bible Bowl teams; multiple speech, scripture reading and song leading/songs of praise participants.  It is easy to get caught up in the numbers and see the growth of the program and consider that the L2L program at Walter Hill is a huge success, but numbers don't matter if there isn't any real spiritual growth.

The focus this year is "Well Work Till Jesus Comes".  During the past 200 years the word "work" meant something totally different then it does today.  Work a century ago was gruelling hard work.  That at the end of the day you were sore, sunburnt and had some scars and bruises to prove it.  I remember when I was a kid we visited the Tennessee State Museum in downtown Nashville and there was one phrase that I learned that I couldn't forget, they worked from "can't to can't".  They started working when they couldn't see the sun; to when they couldn't see the sun.  What a long day.  They didn't really have weekends (like we think of a weekend).  Sunday was their day off to worship God.

Today work, at least to me, means something totally different.  I go to work and earn a living for my family.  My work is sitting in front of a computer crunching numbers most of the day;  my work is mostly through thinking and not through hard work or "labor". Our culture now expects certain things that come with work.  We expect a safe work environment, over-time pay, health and retirement benefits.  We expect to retire at age 65 or even earlier if have been fortuanate.  I think those that lived 200 years agowould look at our culture and think that we are soft.  What is work?

When I hear work till Jesus comes; we should think of work like it used to be and not the term "work" today.  The work that comes with "can't to can't".  This work is one that you don't expect to retire at 65, one that you end the day brusied and tired from a long hard day.  Do we end of the day working for Jesus tired, bruised and worn out as "work" was considered 200 years ago or is our working for Jesus take the "work" as it is in our culture?