Spiritual Thoughts

  Friday Tale - I'm a Pumpkin A  lady had recently been baptized. One of her co-workers asked her what it was like to be a follower of Christ. She was caught off guard and didn't know how to answer, but when she looked around she saw a jack-o'-lantern on the desk and answered: It's like being a pumpkin. The worker asked her to explain that one.   "Well, God picks you from the patch and brings you in and washes off all the dirt on the outside that you got from being around all the other pumpkins.   Then He cuts off the top and takes all the yucky stuff out from inside.   He removes all those seeds of doubt, hate, greed, pride, etc.   Then He carves on you a new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all to see."   I'll never look at a pumpkin the same way again. ~ unknown T herefore if any one be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17

A man won a prize at the county fair for a full-grown pumpkin shaped like a small jar!   How did he accomplish this? When the pumpkin started to bloom he simply put the   bloom into a glass jar and the pumpkin, as it grew,     filled up the jar.  He then broke the jar,       and the pumpkin duplicated the size and shape of the jar. Many times we do the same to ourselves.    We place our selves in containers that limit our growth.  The container will be just as large or small as we believe it to be. It is a matter of choice.       We can choose to grow or          we can choose to become ripe and rot.  -Unknown But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,     they shall mount up with wings like eagles;        they shall run and not be weary;     ...