Christmas in July faded as fast as my green glow stick.  I appreciate that there’s no prep, just action in the moment *haha work liked my Christmas tree, so did the kids when I brought it to church. And then it (xmas in july and vbs) is done… (except for cleaning out my car…)

And vacation bible school was such a tremendous week of sharing and joy in Jesus. I’ve said it was my fourth vbs, this month,  3 whole weeks plus a one-day. I’m not slated to work any more but I will help deliver supplies to a friend’s… My next recovery and relaxation goal is to get to the beach!!!

Having not been a vbs director this year, it’s nice instead to direct myself, direct me being honestly me… and let the Lord populate the ideas and energy.  He’s got plans, let’s be in them. I could not have known that my cat would pass away either this July, it was like with my dad passing 4 yrs ago and seeing “oh, this is how it is going to go” in life… in other words, we live in the moment, we proceed process and pray for purpose. I find service to the Lord is the best processing…

And the Lord wants us to keep sharing HIS LOVE. HIS STORY. HIS ENERGY. HIS DRIVE.

In Imagination Station, science (and crafts) we did the overflow of foam experiment yesterday. Yeast represents Jesus in making the Word of God spread, and that warm feeling from the exothermic reaction of hydrogen peroxide and the yeast enzyme catalyst, it’s just fun and warming. The love of God is warming to our hearts. We also did the glowing goo experiment on people’s hands like the northern lights, and as I explained, like us being the light as well as the salt… the kids did not really.I like the goo experiment that much, this generation needs a little bit more of a wow, and yet God is all HIS Power is the biggest WOW. 

I want to talk about the Holy Spirit and how He brings us the strength and power and knowledge in order to share about Jesus. The Holy Spirit is SO present in VBS. It’s even more jumping than the three year olds could jump all over the front of the church last night at the dance party. It’s great to have this excitement and honestly, regular people don’t go to the front, just the kids… the Holy Spirit jumps into our lives constantly consistently and cleverly. 

I often wonder about the amount of information that we can impart in Vacation Bible School. The stories are there for teaching, the logistics might differ, yet as a BEGINNING, VBS simply is setting the ATMOSPHERE of LOVE, and that’s the conclusion too, because if we want to know God in Whole, we are to know and SHOW God completely as LOVE…

Live LOVE…

Thank you, Lord, for a great month of vacation bible school…

AMEN.