Where did the Honeysuckle go?!

[Barb]

Last night my godbrother was here and he told me something interesting about Sis. Marietta Wolfe/Webster. Perhaps some of you who knew her well can elaborate on this....I am sharing my memory of his memory.

Reg said that Sis. W used to teach about life when she was younger...walking down the street and smelling the sweetness of the Honeysuckle, and the warmth and comfort she felt from the pleasantness of the trees.

Then one day she walked by and someone had marked off where they were going to cut down the trees. The reason they gave was, "It's progress...the trees gotta go to make room for new homes or stores or whatever!!"

Finally the day came that the trees were gone and there was nothing there but emptiness.

What happens to a life or a church when, in the name of progress, we have cut the sweetness of prayer and heartfelt worship and things spiritual to make room for other 'things'?!

I may not be expressing this as clearly as it struck me last night when Reg said it, but I am asking myself this morning, can I still smell the Honeysuckle?!