Don’t Be A Decoy - Romans 12:9-21 (Wednesday Night Reflection)
My family and I are always playing games with words, particularly when it comes to the meaning of words. So it should have been no surprise to me, when last week, my niece Erin came up to me after she came back to the Island from Black Friday shopping, seeing all the signs, and said, “so where’s the real festival if that’s the decoy?” I have to tell you that as I heard about the Decoy Festival before we arrived, I was real perplexed. I was thinking to myself, “what’s the big deal about decoys”? I mean, up to that point, my encounters with decoys were limited to those obviously fake plastic ducks sitting in ponds…to me the only folks that would be celebrating are the hunters who used them to lure in some pretty near-sighted ducks. However, upon coming to the Island and visiting in your homes and going through the museum, I have been awestruck. The gifted artwork of so many of y’all and others across this Island just amazes me. The detailed work on t...