SACRIFICES
Today's reading:  Leviticus 1-3

After reading about the sacrifices required in Old Testament times, I've been left with a few thoughts...

Living on a farm, I understand the concept of giving your choice animal.

But I wonder if I would.

That would leave me with the second-rate animals to look at, feed and have others grade our animal husbandry skills by?  To be left with culls?  To attempt to have top-notch sacrifices for next year using inferior stock?

I can accept the concept of giving the first fruits of the harvest.

But I wonder if I would.

You see, gardening/farming, is a risky gamble, to say the least.

One never knows if one zucchini plant will more than suffice for the summer, or if at the end of a rough garden year, you wish you had planted a dozen.

So to give the first harvest?  To trust there will be plenty?  To put personal needs aside?  To give so that I would have less to have to can, freeze or try to pass off to neighbors?

I think I'm getting it--it's more about the attitude than it is anything I could give.

Maybe that's why it's called a sacrifice?