a 14-minute garden

Today, even if you're not ready to act, look for moments of discipleship when you could imagine yourself acting on later. Planting that seed is enough to get a garden growing.

Mark 4:31-32

It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.”

We've had a flurry of new visitors to the app and Substack. Welcome.

And, it's weird, because I have no idea where you came from. However, I'm grateful you've found us (of course I'm also grateful for those who've hung around for a while as well).

I smiled reading this week's passages, especially this one. 

We're built on the idea that 14 minutes of your day, spent focusing on a faithful act of justice and/or compassion can change you and where you live. 

I can't think of anything more mustard seedy than that. 

14 minutes = 1% of your day.

1% of your day over the 260 days we publish Ripples = a roughly 30% change over the course of a year.

That's transformative discipleship... make one small commitment, everyday, to acting with compassion and justice. 

We're not asking you to be activists or even advocates. Just be the compassionate and just person God's calls you to be... for one brief moment each day.

It's not as easy as it sounds, then again it's not as hard as we make out to be either. Look for that moment today, if you're not ready to act, then merely reflect on what you'd have done differently. That is an act of planting a mustard seed. 

—Jason Whitehead