I often recall when I come upon certain situations a statement my father used to say all the time when we were growing up: something, something blah blah blah”…were you born in a barn?” You could actually add any statement to proceed the infamous born in a barn query…pick up your clothes ….., get your stuff out of the yard…. I can laugh at it now but back then we questioned the origins of our birthplace more than once.

These days I will be out walking in our neighborhood and come across little “piles” left by dog walkers on the sidewalk that are never picked up and I recall that old familiar statement (and some others too, that I would not care to print).
We have toilets to flush for us, we have automatic faucets, doors, towel and soap dispensers and hand dryers. We barely have to think at all anymore. In fact we can get so accustomed to this that we walk around in a daze like a zombie not really cognizant or aware of the trails we leave behind us. Using dressing rooms in department stores used to mean rehanging the clothes when  finished trying them on and even going so far as to return them to the rack set up for that purpose. (gasp!!) Not so much anymore- clothes are strewn about, dressing rooms are so full of discarded merchandise that the workers cannot keep up.

I seriously don’t know if there are enough barns to house all the people who behave as if they were not only born there, but never moved out.

Which brings me to this thought-one could say Christ was born in a barn, one of the most frequented, reverenced, and renowned barns of all.  Yet from those humble beginnings came our Savior and Redeemer. The single greatest man to ever walk the planet. What we see left in the wake of Christ is nothing resembling the things I mentioned above, but rather the scattered remains of love. He left behind healing, hope, faith, and wholeness; and these things transformed lives for the good.

So enough ranting- let’s stop acting like zombies  leaving trails of muck in the wake of our scattered lives and wake up live lives devoted to making the world a better place for us having gone there.