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Friday, April 25, 2025
Wednesday morning of this week I was striding along on my post-breakfast walk when I saw a couple of neighborhood friends. I stopped to chat with them for a bit, and then to make up time I took this shortcut back home.
This is a pleasant walkway, made possible because beneath the path you see on the right, are one and possibly two large water pipes, leading from Lake Young’s Reservoir behind the camera down toward whatever water treatment plant will make the water drinkable.
See those houses on the left? They are separated from the walkway either by wooden fences or – in the case of the center house – a thick hedge. And you’ll notice that while the other homeowners don’t bother mowing the grass margin, because it’s not their property, the hedge people do their best – and they do this every year – to carefully mow the grass all the way up to the path.
I’ve often wondered why they do this. It’s not really a benefit to the path-walkers – we normally just trudge along the gravel, intent upon getting where we’re going. And I don’t see any easy way to get a riding lawnmower through the hedge, so they must use a regular mower. But barbering the grass in this way seems to give satisfaction to the homeowners. They’re going above and beyond what they need to do.
This makes me think of many Christians I have known. They’re not content to do the minimum, cover the bases, conserving their serving. No, real Christians (Christ-ians) follow Jesus’ example, who extended His love and finally His life to cover the sins of the world.
That is true greatness, of course. To read two Bible verses about this, click the link just below: