Organic: weird carrots and taking crap

Ever wonder why some of us organic church-types look something like this? --->

Some pictures paint a thousand words. This pic and its caption
("Organic growth-it isn't pretty"),
from Grace's post says it all. But read the post, too!

Related..Len's classic paper touching on Doug Paggitt's "organic gardening" model of leadership..especially suggestion #1; "take crap."
(Sorry, no photo for that phrase).