Today is Wednesday, July 20th, 2016; Karen's Korner #3357

Sorry for no Karen's Korner yesterday; computer troubles. It's in the repair shop and I am at the library!


On Sunday, Bob Stephenson shared a communion meditation at worship service at the Lake. I liked it and asked him if I could share the thought with 'korner' readers.

It is something written by Bruce Wilkinson. He had the opportunity to chat with a vineyard owner. The owner mentioned the long hours, working in the vineyards, tending grapes, and watching the fruit as it developed and headed toward harvest.

"New branches have a natural tendency to trail down and grow along the ground," the vineyard owner explained. "But they don't bear fruit down there. When branches grow along the ground, the leaves get coated in dust. When it rains, they get muddy and mildewed. The branches become sick and useless."

"What do you do?" asked Wilkinson. "Cut them off and throw them away?"

"Oh, no!" the owner exclaimed. "The branch is much too valuable for that. We go through the vineyard with a bucket of water looking for those branches. We lift them up and wash them off. Then we wrap them around the trellis or tie them up. Pretty soon they're thriving."

Wilkinson went on the explain his own mental picture of Jesus doing that for each of us:  trailing too near the ground; getting muddy and mildewed; becoming useless. But Jesus comes back to rescue each of because 'we are too valuable to throw away!

We want to praise you, Jesus, for the way that you never abandon us. Never figure we are too unworthy to be rescued or saved. You have amazing grace and love. You have such wonderful plans of using us for Your purposes! We don't deserve so much attention, but You give it to us unconditionally!


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