Cathy's Corner

Cathy’s Corner

 

Today is Thursday of Bible School. I can honestly say that I don’t ever remember being this tired during Bible school, and we all have concluded that we haven’t done near the amount of physical work getting ready for it that we normally do. In the past we have hung butcher paper on the walls, made trees out of everything from butcher paper to paper towel holders. From our homes we’ve hauled everything from Christmas trees to boats, to Army gear, to basket ball goals and sport equipment to pretty much everything but our kitchen sinks. I even took down one of my twin beds and hauled it along with a night stand and a lamp to the church; oh never mind that was for Daddy the Sandman and Me not VBS.  There are no limits to what a dedicated VBS worker will go to in order to ensure kids have the greatest possible week of the summer and to teach them about Jesus. But last year we had just finished our renovations of the Preschool building and we decided that was all the decorations we needed. Who would want to cover up such a great facility after we finally got it? This year our pre-kindergarten and kindergarten is completed as well and once again who needs to cover up such a great facility? So why am I so tired? Why after twenty years of ministry, after twenty years of VBS would I now be so tired; especially when I have such great help and such fantastic volunteers? Could it be, would it be, oh please don’t tell me, its old age! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

You can never be too old for VBS; I’ve been telling people that for years. It’s true; you can never be too old for VBS. Everyone feels like a kid again during that week. You do things that you don’t normally do, you act in ways that you don’t normally act and you are willing to put everything else aside so that even one child can learn about Jesus and His love for them. This week I’ve seen entire families working in VBS. That always does my heart good to know that parents are teaching their children how to be a servant and to teach others about Jesus. I’ve sat at my desk and watched as Mother’s would come up the sidewalk with their children and kids piling out of cars. I’ve seen women standing on chairs acting like a choo choo train, dressing up with bandanas and talking like Aussies and hopping around like kangaroos.  I’ve seen grown women wearing crazy hats, blinking glasses and blowing bubbles out of a cell phone, oh wait a minute that was me. So you are never too old for VBS but  maybe you just can’t do the same things in VBS that you used to and it takes a lot longer to recover. Just like our children promote every year and learn to do something different and learn more and more about Jesus; it’s the reverse for us as adults. We can still work in VBS but we start doing something different and not as strenuous, and we do less and less physically.  But it’s all worth it when you watch those tired happy faces leaving at the end of the day saying, “I had so much fun today!” Or when you sit and watch them during large group singing the song they have learned all week, folding their hands in prayer and praying to Jesus, and telling you what the memory verse for the week was. Or when that one child that has given you more trouble than you can stand and you’re about ready to pull your hair out, gives his heart to Jesus and you see all the seeds that have been planted in the fertile little hearts of our preschoolers it makes it worth every tired achy bone in your body. After all it all comes back to Jesus.

 

Have a great day in the Lord