See if it doesn't produce something useful. My friends, this is the moment of God's mercy for us. A second chance. A new beginning. I love the bumper sticker that appeared a few years ago in reply to that vulgar, cynical red neck bumper sticker we saw for a while on every other pickup truck stuck in the rush hour lines on Mopac.
Truth is, the grace often comes when the manure is the deepest, and both happen together.
Funny thing about that stuff. It has been the glory of the church through the ages, the glory of this church through its transitions, that when the manure of human need and exclusive bigotry and suffering beyond our resources spread all around us, be have budded and blossomed and produced the fruits of righteousness and justice and mercy and grace. We are the ending of this parable. The parable is being concluded in your church and mine in this blessed time between the first advent and the next. There is still time, thank God.