The Burning Gitch is actually symbolic...

meet mark...sweet dear mark who didn't know what he was getting into when he let me download his africa pictures...anyways...THE GITCH IS SYMBOLIC! I've decided this pictures really captures a point I'd like to make...something that was brought to my attention this week...(i'm gonna build this one up so wait for the connection...it wont click in right away...) So, we are all, face it, in community. We can't get away from it really, even when we want to...its seems like that is the day that the post man feels chatty SO...we all experience community on some level. HOWEVER we also all have/and do know lonliness from time to time (sermon last week) but we don't know how to reconcile the two...more people = more mental (crazy/easily agitated), Less people seems to = More lonely... so we find ourselves in a little bit of a cycle....we meet people...like them, want them to like us so we are open...honest and receptive (still with me?). Then, people being people, say something hurtful, DO something offensive, or just plain are annoying and we pull away....and sometimes...even close ourselves off completly from them...and eventually other people...we burn bridges (and in this case gitches). Lets imagine our relationships are like Mark's gitch here...Lets imagine we've done something to sully them...And truly wouldn't it just be easier to stop talking to someone than to talk about the screw up? Easier to ignore it (or deny it) than to clean it up? And it seems like, everytime we offend, that offense just sinks in...and it really needs some serious pre-treating of shout or something to get it out after wards...no easy task once its been sitting...Now in defense of Mark's actions here....I've heard that he NEEDED to burn this particular pair...past the point of salvation let me tell you! haha (just hearsay...) But yeah...I'm not giving some how to here, just a small commentary on what I think our nature leans to, and we should be aware of it