Sunday, January 4, 2004

And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
(Philippians 1.9-11 NRSV)
At a Midwestern fair many spectators gathered for an old-fashioned horse-pull (An event where various weights are put on a sled hitched to a horse and pulled along the ground). The grand-champion horse pulled a sled with 4,500 pounds on it. The runner up was close--with a 4,400 pound pull. Some of the men wondered what they could pull if hitched together. Separately, they had totaled nearly 9,000 pounds, but when hitched and working together as a team, the winning horses were able to pull more than 12,000 pounds.

Imagine the powerful force we could exert if we all "pulled together as a team.

So, if the first thing we should remember is that life reaches a level of worth when we give something of ourselves to other people, then the second thing we should remember is that when people cooperate with one another, their combined effort is often greater than their individual endeavors could produce.

Together, we can make our world a more Godly and loving community.

Loving God, the sharing of your love starts with me. Help me and my community of faith to love more. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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