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Stewardship equals what we do with what we’ve got, all the time.  The logo was the idea of a stewardship committee member (who is an engineer) several years ago while pondering on a theme for the St. Paul’s, Indianapolis annual stewardship campaign. Our logo turned out to have roughly the shape of a football.

This morning I thought of that logo while reading The Very Rev. Robert Giannini’s “Faith Seeking Understanding” blog entry, Cathedrals of the Mind and Spirit.

What would happen to our own stewardship habits if we placed the St. Paul’s stewardship logo sticker on our “stuff” including clocks and credit cards?  We still have some stickers if you want to try it!

A recent Sunday morning found me driving through my neighborhood on the way to church.   Several people were working in their yards, two were jogging, and there were a lot of Sunday newspapers in driveways.   “Some of these people have kids that don’t know any Bible stories”, I thought as I mumbled, “How can they be so busy with life and so important that they can’t take an hour or so for church?” S=W2DW3G

Sometime ago I read a story (I have no idea who wrote it or where I read it.) about an alien visiting North America and marveling at life on our planet.  “Mr. Alien” was captivated by three observations.  One was the abundance of some kind of stationary structures that required attachment to wires and pipes that extended for great distances.  He reported he thought the purpose of the wires and pipes was to provide a constant source of nourishment to the structures.  Another observation was of multitudes of mobile structures that were not attached to a source of nourishment but darted into some kind of nourishment station, became temporarily attached, then darted off soon to stop at another station.  His third observation was that both the stationary and mobile structures had little beings of some sort that moved around on two stick-like appendages.  Those beings, he was certain, were captives of the structures. They seemed to be constantly worshiping the structures as they tended to their every need.

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