Central West Virginia's Guide To Life

BUT I WORK ON SUNDAYS
By Mary Zimmer

9/07 - Slugs

Slugs are very gross creatures. Even their name is rather, unpleasant sounding.

Why bring up such a slimy, yucky creature? Well because I have a slug farm in the backyard. Not literally of course, but there does seem to be a lot of them back there.

How do I know they’re there? Well other than the obvious of seeing them at night and of course stepping on them when I don’t see them, which let me tell you is big time gross! I also see the evidence of them the next morning.

See slugs leave behind traces of their presence. It’s a crystal like substance that I see on the grass, on my deck and anything else they slime around on.
The other day I noticed that the slugs must have had a major party on my deck the night before. There was crystal crisscrosses all over the place. As I looked at the evidence of their crossing, I wondered what evidence do I leave behind of my presence?

Some times the slugs only leave the crystal paths, other times I see their destruction of eating the leaves of my flowers. What do I leave behind? What do you leave behind?

Do we leave behind encouragement, joy and pleasantness? Or just like the slugs, do we occasionally leave behind destruction in our mean spirited words and/or actions?

Jesus told the disciples that the world would know that they were His disciples when they loved one another. (John 13:34,35) Love leaves traces of encouragement, joy and pleasantness behind.

The world will know when a disciple of Christ has passed because there will be evidence of their presence left behind.

Consider this month, what evidence of your passing do you leave behind? Do people know that a disciple of Christ was present by that evidence?
May September be filled with leaving evidence of love behind us.