Pumpkins and Clean Hearts!

It's pumpkin time again! The kids still love carving pumpkins and so they did last weekend. They drew their designs on paper and then I wielded the knife to carve. Ethan wanted a "Jason" pumpkin bc he is into all the gory stuff boys like. Emily wanted a classic pumpkin face like they made last year in her Kinder class. She's a classic kind of a gal. All that pumpkin carving brought to mind the book I have for preschoolers: "The Pumpkin Gospel". Step by step it demonstrates how, like a pumpkin, God removes the sin (yucky insides) and makes us clean and able to shine a light for others to see. How thankful I am for a God can clean us up and make us shiny. I didn't read the book at the time we were doing our pumpkin thing but had read it to Emily a week or more before. So when Emily finished with her pumpkin and started to clean it off I thought there was a bit of symbolism in that. Happy October!