“They will be full of sap and very green” (Psalm 92:14).
An article in “The Progressive Farmer” asked whether to “Keep or Cull?” Subtitle of the article: “High prices have changed the rules about when to cut one loose from the herd.”
Here’s a quote–
Farmers who want to keep their herds young and viable know the importance of culling certain animals that get too old, consume too much resources, are no longer producing, or are a detriment in other ways.
Pastors cannot cull.
More’s the pity, we say with a wink.
There is a reason certain businesses are dying before our eyes. K-Mart and Shoney’s come to mind. The discount store and the restaurant were once all the rage. We think of names like Montgomery-Ward, Spiegel, Western Auto, and Rexall– in most cases only dim memories now. National Shirt Shop. Woolworth. Maison Blanche.
To stay healthy and maintain its mission, any entity must be constantly reinventing itself, tweaking its systems, sloughing off the old and dead, birthing the new.
In most cases, the dying businesses did not get the memo. Some stores and hotels look like they’ve not had a paint job in years. The hand-dryer in the bathroom does not work, and the personnel all wish they were working somewhere else.
As a customer, you take your business elsewhere.
This train got the disappearing railroad blues. (A line from “City of New Orleans”)