The responsibility of caring for a lawn is not a high priority for me.  Part of the reason for that is there has not been a lawn to care for.  Now there is and unfortunately, last year I did something that reflects great ignorance, on my part, in the field of lawn care.  I sprayed some Roundup weed killer directly on quite a few spots in our grass.  Most of you who read this will smile because you will know the result.  As I look out the window at what was a lush green patch of grass when we bought the house last July, now it looks like it has a disease!  Earlier this spring, we put some seed down in those spots but we haven't seen much result.  The concern, of course, is that the Roundup takes awhile to leach out of the soil.  I'm hoping to consult a 'lawn professional' today and maybe get some good advice.
Those patches of dead ground surrounded by lush green life look like a living illustration to me of the Church.  The Church is still God's chosen vehicle for communicating the life changing message of the gospel.  In spite of all it's faults and failures there is no plan B.  The lush green living grass that is there depicts to me the living Church.  The dry dead patches, depict both struggling and dying churches and those who have not yet been drawn to our Heavenly Father's great love for them.
Our Father is a God of redemption and it is Him and Him alone by the power of the Holy Spirit who brings life both to the Church and to those He is drawing to Himself.  We need that power as well and so each morning we ask the Holy Spirit to fill is again and empower us in big and small ways to bring a little bit of the kingdom of heaven down to kingdom of this earth.
Ephesians 3:14-21 is an amazing section of Paul's letter to the early Christians in Ephesus.  He prays for them, and us, that we might be "filled to the measure of all the fullness of God".  
What difference would it make in our lives today if we really felt full from all of the fullness of God?  I have to believe that those dead patches of grass would come back to life and that life would spill over into the lives of others.  May it be so for us today!!