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Life lived to the full begins with a gift - the gift of God's Son to us and for us. Likewise, we're launching The Year of Living Dangerously in the same way, with a gift. If you were with us in worship on Sunday you should have taken home a gift box. Yes, it was a Chinese take out box, and yes there were cookies inside, but there were no fortunes or lottery numbers found inside of these cookies. We call them Vision Cookies. They have 9 different phrases from 6 authors on thoughts that speak to the life lived dangerously, faithfully and fully. If you missed us on Sunday, there are still boxes left (and there is more in them than just Vision Cookies), and you can pick one up next week.Now that most of you have hopefully opened up the gift boxes and have taken part in the cookies inside, what quotes spoke to you or challenged you? How is God speaking to you so far in these very early stages of TYLD?
"What's in the box Mommy?" The simple words of inquiry of a child, my daughter. She was just as curious as I was, or I was just as curious as she was. I'm certain it was the latter. The gold seal was broken and the contents were explored. My daughter had never encountered a "fortune" cookie before and I took a moment to explain the little piece of paper within that contained a special message. We cracked the cookie open and removed the first message. A simple message was all that was needed to spark a precious conversation between mother and daughter and the gracious love that is knowing Christ.
ReplyDeleteAwesome, Christina! That's what we were hoping for. Thanks for telling your story.
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