Mom was talking to us today about how we get so caught up in the activities of our lives that we forget to be a part of people's lives. She said that one of our church members, who is recently widowed, had a group of people stop by her house and clean her gutters, trim her bushes and offer to paint her house...all at no cost. It was a group from a church in the area who had decided to adopt that block and help them out. Shouldn't it have been her church family coming over to help her, without her having to ask. Our bulletin's are full of dinners and activites for the upcoming weeks, our schools offer so many programs, our jobs require more and more time (or so we think) that we forget in all of this the people who are around us. What if for every activity we removed from our lives, we replaced it with helping/loving someone around us, what a difference we could make. What if for every hour we didn't stay late at work, we took dinner to someone who just needs a friend, how could God use us? Just thinking about it and typing it out in this blog is really making me think about how we, as a church and as individuals, need to transition our thinking from how can we provide activities to new people so they will want to come to our church to how can we show the people around us God's love so that they will want to come to God. Just a little something I will be thinking about this week.