Shade Garden - Growing Plastic Bags

Hostas are grown mostly for leaf color, but hummingbird fans enjoy the flower spikes which attract the tiny birds for a sip. This is Blue Hawaii, which costs as much as a trip there, so I have clearance hosta.

Ranger Bob came over to give Mrs. Ichabod some fresh flowers (around his 20th time) and to feed treats to Sassy Sue. I was put in charge of pour-over coffee. I was grinding beans when he said, "What is that?"

I had planted hostas and lambs ear in the shade to the right of the tool shed. To keep the mowers and me from stepping on them, I placed their shipping pages on sticks and stuck them in the soft soil. "I have started a plastic bag garden, to save money." Bob laughed but asked penetrating questions about bags stuck on sticks. 

I woke up from a dream about the LCMS. Memo to self - do not write about the LCMS just before falling asleep. But that prompted me to think about church matters as I began to wake up - what a time to be alive!

Above - the Extraordinary League of Failures, WELS. They were old enough to have read Gausewitz - and the New Testament in Greek. What moved them to change from Justification by Faith to Objective Justification? Their Church Growth partners include - David Valleskey, Frosty Bivens, Wally Oelhafen, Fred Adrian, Floyd Luther Stolzenburg, Jon-Boy Buchholz, etc.

We are now looking at the dissolution of the Mainline Church Era, started by rationalist Baptists (Walter Rauschenbusch) and similar Methodists and Episcopalians. They could not do enough damage individually, so they banded together in any number of unions, from the morganatic (secret) to the open (WCC, NCC, and several pan-Lutheran councils). The liberal Lutherans were disgusted that the synods could not gather into one big organization - like ELCA? David Granskou, teaching at Waterloo Seminary, was quite vocal about this, as the former paid Secretary of one of these. He was very shy about the Virgin Birth of Christ (did not answer the question) and wrote a book saying no one understands the parables. I thought of one in particular - Granskou - who did not.

The excuse is - "If we staunch, quia, orthodox, confessional Lutherans work with ELCA, we can influence them in a positive way."