Logical Thinking

Yet again the drought was big news last night. The usual images of skinny cows, dry lands, farmers letting dust run through their fingers.

And it kinda hit me that the reason so many are suffering, is because they're doing things the way they've always done them. They still plant their crops way too far apart by tractor, which lets valuable moisture from the ground evaporate instead of being caught up by the leaves of the plants and returned to the ground. Water isn't recycled from their homes to be used on the lands. Pasture is grazed to the ground without a good policy of animal rotation (by which you can actually IMPROVE barren, eroded land to the point that it's better than ever).

Struck me that perhaps the church is operating similarly. We wonder where all the members went and why the services are dry and drought-y, and yet we're doing the same destructive things we always have. We're stuck in the way we've always done it. And can't figure out what's wrong.

All it takes is a little logical thinking to sort out both drought-ravaged farms and churches. But as I've noticed, logical thinking is something sorely lacking these days. We all just muddle on in the tracks left before us, wearing them deeper and deeper and wondering why we can't see a way out anymore.

It's a pity....