I’m not trying to clean up other people’s backyards until my own is perfectly clean.
P.S. this is a metaphor. I don’t have a trespassing problem….anymore
Discussion
Jesus said something like you are... According to Matthew at least.
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."
Its a good one.
But tell me when you get your backyard cleaned up and I'll have you come over and boss me around to help me with mine.
Yup I remember that part and also the one where everyone is stoning the prostitute and they try to get Jesus to throw a stone and he said “he who is without sin may cast the first stone” or something like that. I really like the concept🫂
If I get a piece of sawdust in one of my eyes, I can just read that story about the prostitute. If only it would also clean up my back yard. There's an old trampoline back there that I really need to take apart.
Because now that I'm an old man, I weep every time I read that story, every single time, because... she is me.
There's a part of that story that is interesting. He draws in the dirt, but it doesn't say what he was drawing... or writing. Some people have figured that he was writing the names of the men in the group ready to stone the prostitute who had been with her.
And they all leave.
But the words he speaks to her after they all leave slay me every time.
"Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you? "
"No one, sir. "
"Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more."
Every time this makes me weep.
Anyway... I seem to have taken this down a deep religious pathway when you were just talking about cleaning up your bacl yard. I feel like I should offer to come over and help you tote some shit around to the trash cans or the curb or whatever.
You have a couple couple of dogs & puzz yer backyard will always have poop
Get a sign that says "Trespassers will be prostituted!". It might act as a deterrent.