ONE LOG ON A FIRE

One log on a fire will not burn as long or as brightly as two.  And a dozen will light up the sky.

So it is with human beings who need each other.  To love each other and comfort each other and hold each other close when loneliness descends like a thousand nights.  We were made for fellowship and even though some may be more shy they certainly need fellowship no less.

So love your neighbor and stop honking that horn when the car in front of you seems destined be their forever.  Don't yell at the grocery clerk or your children or anyone really for a soft word of patience is a delicious nugget of brightness in a world that needs more and more of same and such.

Lay no logs together.  Light no fires and you have sinned the sin of selfishenss and unconcern...and you are hurt by it as are all those who come in contact with you.  Be patient with me as I test that patient as I pray and struggle and pray to do the same toward you.  What a warmth even more than a hearthstone warmth do we thereby create.

And oh how I glory when I walk with my Christ I look to my right or left and see you.  What a joy to count you as closer brother and sister.

Have you heard the  story of the mouse in the house?

The little mouse looked out of his mouse hole one day and saw that the farmer and his

wife had put out a new mousetrap.

The mouse was naturally upset and went to his friends in the barnyard for help.

The Chicken said it was of no concern to him.

Mr. Pig said he was too tired and continued to lay in the mud.

Mrs. Cow to help but she just looked heavenward and continued to chew.

That night the farmer’s wife heard the mousetrap snap and went to check it out.

She got bit in the leg by a snake caught in the mousetrap and became deathly sick.

We all know that when someone is sick you feed them chicken soup-right?

So the farmer had to butcher the chicken to make his wife some chicken soup.

Friends and family came to the house to encourage the farmer’s wife.

We all know you need food to feed the family and friends…so they butchered the pig.

But the farmer’s wife died. You can’t just order sandwiches from the grocery store for

the reception.

You need food. Well, the cow became the main dish.

Interesting isn’t it, if all in the barnyard crew would have looked out for one another,

looked for a solution together, they might all have survived.

“If one part of the body suffers, we all suffer. If one part rejoices, we all rejoice.”

I Corinthians 12.26