My wife is a great lover of plants and planting. Over the years this love has resulted in a mass of flower beds in our back yard. Each spring we would weed the beds and mulch them planting plats of spring and summer flowers and the occasional experimental plant.
Recently Rosemary has gained an allergy to wasp stings. She has to carry an epi-pen at all times. Living where we do we have tons of wasps and working in the yard is no longer an option for her. With my knee, which I originally injured doing spring mulching, I can no longer do much in the yard either.
When Jonathan, our Youth Director, announced a “slave day” fund raiser to help build a school in Africa it seemed a chance to get at least some of the needed yard work done. The cost of getting the beds done professionally has become prohibitive. I scheduled our yard on the work day and asked my good friend Gary if I could borrow a trailer to haul in some mulch. In typical Gary fashion, he actually went with me to get the mulch and delivered it to our home.
I hadn’t expected to get all the the needed work done, just to get a start on it. One youth, her mom and one of the youth group leaders showed up. They worked like “slaves” for four hours hauling mulch, pulling weeds and spreading the mulch. Nearly all our beds were done as beautifully as they were ever done by professionals. In addition, I had the benefit of visiting with cheery workers all afternoon.
We are prone to complain about the younger generation. The spoiling of our kids has come back to haunt us. I can’t comment on all youth, or even all our youth group. But I can say I was impressed by the work ethic of one youth, her mom and her youth group leader and Rose and I are extremely grateful.
The Christian Work Ethic is alive and well at Amana.
Be blessed, we sure are.
Nick
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