The Pile
As Youth Pastors we are always looking for way to "show" students something tangible in the natural that can reflect something that goes on in the spiritual. For instance, if you have ever watched a cut on your hand heal over time, you can then visualize how over time, God can heal a wounded heart. So, we recently had this great idea! Mike, my amazing husband, has three horses. This gives us access to manure ta-boot. We decided to scoop up this manure and form it into two piles. I then went to the dollar store and purchased toy sport cars, plastic diamonds, coins and paper money, anything that would represent real value and luxury in the real un-toy form. I then buried those in each of the piles. We divided the youth into two teams, which this night was all guys on both teams, and gave them the challenge to dig through the piles and see which team could come up with the most items of "value". Team one was all about it. (I s...