A Little Crazy Is Good

I heard a great story today. It’s a little out there, but that’s what makes it so great. A man, the father of someone in my church, had a tree in his backyard that was nearly dead. He got tired of seeing its deadness and was thinking of cutting it down. But something made him think of the teaching that he’d had on communion. There’s something awesome in the act of communion, in sharing the love of God with God. This man had an idea. He went in his house and came out with a cracker and a small glass of wine. He spoke to the tree and blessed it. Then he broke up the cracker and sprinkled it around the base of the tree then he ate the rest of the cracker. Then he poured some of the wine around the tree and drank the rest himself. Well, I don’t have to tell you that within two months the tree was not only healthy, but already bearing fruit.

Now how awesome is that? Yes, it really sounds crazy, but so what! I love that he did it out of what was in his heart, not because someone told him to. Now, I’m not advocating having communion with all your plants, though I really don’t think it would hurt, I just think that we need to be open to crazy. Let God out of the box. Let Him do something impossible, but be ready to be little crazy to make it happen. You know those wild ideas you get from time to time? The ones that you wish someone else would act on? Go for it! Ohmygosh! Just see what would happen if you did. The Bible doesn’t call us a peculiar people for nothing.