Proverbs 14 verse 4

We had a new family in church on Sunday and their daughter was VERY noisy. So much so that the mother took her out just as communion started.  The family were embarrassed and said at the end that this was one of the reasons that they hadn't been to church for a long time.  We tried to reassure them that this was OK and that after a few weeks she would settle in.  Hopefully they will be back.

I was thinking of them when I read today's Proverbs reading.  "An empty stable is easily kept clean but there is no profit from an empty stable."  We could keep our church as a pristine temple of pure quiet worship but it would be sterile without children and their noises.  We would be an empty stable, nice and clean but a stable without profit.