by Eddie Pipkin
I have a great yard, a Central Florida acre that features some fruit trees, plenty of flowers, and assorted colorful tropical landscape plants. I tend this flora for the serenity of it. I’m a person who needs a regular serenity-inducer to counterbalance my natural impatience. Therefore, I try to keep the gardening chores as uncomplicated as possible. Enter my principal antagonist, the water hose. Every time I drag that long hose out for a watering session, the kinks get me. Kinks are the enemy of Zen. They can literally interrupt your flow. Managing them offers lessons in life and leadership, and ministry, after all, is full of kinks, crimps, and unexpected entanglements.
I have a lot of ground to cover, so I have at least three very long water hoses positioned in order to reach all of the applicable watering spots.