GET STIRRED UP

This is the "Tedder" at Fort Rock Family Camp.

I did not know what it was for until they put me

to using it.  After the hay has been cut it obviously

is going to just lay on the ground.  If it lays there too

long it could rot on the bottom or not cure properly.

So, when needed you put the "Tedder", which is a 

form of a hay rake, on the back of a tractor and go

out and "stir" up the hay.  It does not rake the hay 

into rows like a normal hay rake, but just stirs up the

hay so it can all get some fresh air and sunshine.

For my self it made an interesting afternoon just

driving up and down in the hay field stirring up the

hay.

I wonder how many of us need to use a "Tedder" in

our life.  You know, life sometimes can get dull and

and in a rut.  The cares of life can pull us down and 

we loose interest in things.  Even spiritually some times

we get in a rut going through the motions.  Or said 

another way, we take God for granted.

Perhaps that is why when writing to Timothy he said;

"Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that

thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee

by the putting on of my hands."

(2 Timothy 1:6 KJV). 

In this case the thought is like stirring up a fire that

is about to go out.

My prayer often has to be, 

"God, stir me up."