Good Dirt: Cultivating Soil for Faith and Justice

So y'all in the season of Lent, which is this is the first Sunday in Lent. That's right. Not of Lent. In Lent. It it makes a difference. Right? Because Sundays are are if if you're doing something for Lent, it is Sundays are little mini Easters. And so we we we Sundays are not a part of Lent. Lent are the forty days that exclude Sundays. Little little thing that we are learning. [00:35:08] (36 seconds)  #InLentNotOfLent

So, anyway, so this this season of Lent, our theme is good dirt, and we are going to be talking about what it means to be good dirt. What does it mean to be the dirt that seed gets planted in? What does it mean to be the dirt that grows up fruit, grows up plants that can bear fruit? What does it look like as a church to be the church that is such good soil that we are able to bear fruit? [00:35:44] (39 seconds)  #GoodDirt

So you might remember and you'd be like, oh, you just talked about this scripture. Well, we did. We did just talk about this scripture. But when we talked about it before, what we talked a lot about was how we're spreading the seed. We saw ourselves as the sower. And today, we're gonna talk to talk about it and see ourselves as the dirt. [00:36:33] (21 seconds)  #BeTheSoil

We're gonna see ourselves as the the ones that are the dirt. And here's the thing about dirt, y'all, and I don't know if if any of you any of you like to to grow things in dirt. Like, I like to. I'm not very good at it, but I try. You know? But the thing that I know about this is that there are things you can do to make your dirt better. There are things you can do to enhance your dirt to make it better. [00:36:55] (29 seconds)  #ImproveYourSoil

There are things you can do to enhance your dirt to make it better. And some of those things sometimes don't seem like things that maybe we want in our lives. Right? Anybody ever heard of black cow manure? Right? It's composted manure. It comes from cows. And guess what? It makes your dirt so much better. [00:37:20] (23 seconds)  #CompostForGrowth

It makes your dirt so much better. It makes stuff up able to grow so much better. So what does it look like in our lives if we're composting? Right? What does that look like? It looks okay. Did somebody answer? It looks like garbage. Right? It means like letting go of the garbage. It means that we take all the stuff that we need to let go of. [00:37:40] (24 seconds)  #LetGoToGrow

It means that we take all the stuff that we need to let go of. We take all of the stuff that maybe has hurt us, has has harmed us, has been a problem in the past, and we put it into making the dirt better. We put it into how we get better, and we're gonna talk about this a lot in the next few weeks. [00:38:00] (24 seconds)  #TurnPainIntoSoil

We're not just gonna talk about dirt. We're gonna talk about what it means to rest Because what it means to to rest our dirt. Right? Because if you just keep planting in the same dirt and you're not adding to it, you're not giving the dirt the nutrition that it needs, you know what? It stops being able to grow anything, and so you have to rest your dirt. What does it mean to be good dirt? [00:38:24] (23 seconds)  #RestYourSoil