The River Church Community

1 Dollar on Soil:

I once heard that if you have 1 dollar to spend on your garden plot, that you should spend 99 cents on the soil.  The soil is that important.  99 cents on soil.  1 cent on the rest.  With that in mind, I turned my attention to The River Community Garden and its hard clayey soil.  Soil so hard it resists every shovel thrust.  Soil so hard that it takes 20-30 people to dig a garden plot.  And I began to think about how much money had been invested in the soil over the past century.  Not much, I think.  You can tell. 

 And it makes you wonder about Jesus’ words: “he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold. And he said, ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear.’"

It makes you wonder.  If you had 1 dollar, how much would you spend on soil?  And how much would you spend on all the rest?