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There is a huge rock near a gravel pit on Hwy. 25 in rural Iowa. For generations, kids have painted slogans, names, and obscenities on this rock, changing its character many times.   A few months back, the rock received it's latest paint job, and since then it has been left completely undisturbed. It's quite an impressive  sight. Click on the link below and check for yourself. There are multiple photos (all angles) of the rock.

Pastor was back today. (btw I tried to change the font and in my window it looks exactly like the pasted in piece so I have been fiddling around in here).

While off for the holiday and exposed to his daughter's TV habits he choose what he saw to make a sermon. Reality shows. He pointed out what we read in the Bible is the true reality show.

Took hub and I forever to get to the scripture text in 1 Samuel. The thin paper in our Bibles tends to stick together and by the time we get to the book we have forgotten the chapter and verse he is reading from.

He instructed us all to write down RSG even if in a margin. So out came my bulletin. R stands for 'reflect'- where we are in our relationship with God. He even used the example of their cat that hops in the empty boxes and looks out. How many of us in our busy lives take the time to reflect?

S stands for study. Read our Bibles, it still speaks to us today. We can learn where we are as we go through our studying. He used a reality show that goes into rich entertainers homes and only one of them even had a bookcase. I've not seen that show.

G stands for growth- here we put our study into action, we grow.

As he read from Col 3: 12-17 that passage came back to me without even finding it in time. At some time I had even highlighted vs. 12, "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience".  Women's Devotional Bible NIV

One thing I do know without my church family my growth would be stymied. Sort of a birds of a feather mentality you might say.