The Living Stone

The Living Stone
1 Peter 2.4-10

I have never been a great gardener. Among many other reasons – lack of patience, moving house too often – I would name the problem I met the very first time I tried to take control of the small garden outside our first house. It was overgrown and needed tidying up. As I set to work, it seemed that my spade was forever hitting something hard. The more I went at it, the more frustrating it became. The earth was simply full of stones, large, small and everything in between. After half an hour or so I realized that if I was going to get all the stones out so I could put some plants in, it would not only take me a long time, I would have a large pile of stones to deal with at the end...

Taken from Early Christian Letters For Everyone by Tom Wright