Monday, October 30, 2017

BENJI One of the most prolific images of this autumn season is the pumpkin. It’s everywhere, in centerpieces, family pictures in pumpkin patches, pumpkin spice EVERYTHING. But my favorite is the Jack O’ Lantern, and it’s not just the fun our family has making them. It’s a lesson about myself that I see in the whole process. It starts with a lowly pumpkin sitting in a patch, waiting to fulfill its purpose. Will it be on a table, in a pie, in a latte? Then one day it’s chosen, it is given a purpose. To be put out on a porch for the world to see. Just like us in a way. God finds us and gives us a purpose. God steps in and removes all the smelly goop inside us, our sins, places a light within us, the Holy Spirit, and removes unneeded parts of us so that light may shine for all to see. Thanks to Jesus’ death on a cross for the forgiveness of our sins, as 1 Cor 5:17 says, we are a new creation, just like that humble Jack o lantern. Be safe, and God’s peace be with you.