it's late tuesday night and new york is wide open. one of the girls on staff at the church we're working with said the city is about the size of DFW airport, and has about 1.8 million residents.

we've spent the mornings giving out granola bars on wall street, and the afternoons giving out gum. tomorrow we'll do a water project. the journey church is starting a new message series on sunday, so we're giving out cards with the granola, gum, and water. we've also done some clean up projects

in mark 4, Jesus tells the story of the guy casting the seed, some landing on good ground, some on bad ground, and some in between. i wonder if part of the application of the story is that we should not only scatter as much seed as we can, but that we should also do what we can to make more fertile soil. even hardened soil, with some tilling and such, could eventually produce a good crop. maybe we shoul think more about how we treat others than we do. maybe we can make thee soil more fertile by demonstrating God's love, no strings attached, every chance we get.