will work for food

We've been talking a lot about community lately (well not really but since I've been working on this 40 days stuff for the past 400 days it seems like it has been talked about a lot), but it really is a great little concept. It's too bad so much of it has been lost in how we live. We're taught to be self-sufficient and independent...that we don't need other people and we shouldn't need help. The thing is, there really is enough of everything to go around if we all did our part. I know that sounds a bit socialistic, but really it's about community. We all have things that we're better at or that we enjoy that other people could benefit from. It's the concept Greg talked about this past weekend of making known what you have to share.

I've experienced it already this week in a few ways and it just makes me think of how much more we could all do. For example, I enjoy working in my yard, but it has been really HOT here lately and mowing the grass is something that no one at my house has been excited about doing. I have, however been excited about cooking which is always more fun when there are people there to eat the food. Well, there you go - I have someone volunteer to mow the grass for some home cooked food and we have a match! They liked mowing the grass, I liked cooking the food and we're all happy. Simple, yes, but how well it works!