Vacation Bible School

July 28 - August 1, 2008 

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By the time this gets to you it will be gone. Did you see it? Did you notice it? Did you take pictures of it? Do you remember it? It was the mustard, those huge plants growing on the hills of the Peninsula, the big yellow glow that grabbed your attention. Not only was the Mustard growing on the Peninsula but on the hills up and down the coast of California and into Mexico… I know I saw it.

But by now the flowers are only a memory. The yellow has been muted and the green plants are not so green. But it doesn’t make the vibrancy of that event less real. I guess for me this is how I view my relationship with God.

Our relationship consists of moments of connection between myself and God that are vibrant and vague, small and significant, minute and magnanimous. It grabs my attention and makes me sit up and notice. It is yellow…sometimes. It can make me smile or laugh or cry. It is not necessarily because it is beautiful, sometimes I just don’t like the color yellow. It is not necessarily because it is more than I can handle, though it is. It is because it is real.

Though the mustard is present and real as I am writing this I know that this moment will be gone. But I remember, I take pictures, I walk through it again so that I do not forget in the times when I don’t see God. Oh wait, I was talking about mustard.