Reunion

When we were young, and I’m assuming you aren’t anymore, we always got excited about going somewhere during the summer months. I’m old enough to remember we didn’t go to places kids go to now. There was no Wonderland or Disney World. There was no Darian Lake or Great Wolf Lodge. I do have to admit we had Storybook Gardens in London, ON. But we never went there. When I was young, we went to the next best thing, our cousin’s homes. To us they held the best fun of all.

We used to chase wild pheasants in the Stoney Creek out behind Uncle Oscar’s home in Stoney Creek, ON. Also, while there, we entertained ourselves searching through the closed in porch for all kinds of neat cast off items of a large family. Some of us even had opportunity to run up the front stairs at Uncle Alan’s home and down the back stairs until Aunt Norma had enough and sent us out to the back yard where we picked and ate wild raspberries, blackberries, elderberries and gooseberries. We made our fun. As I mentioned in church on Sunday, we had very vivid imaginations.

The best one for me back then, was when we went to my dad’s sister’s house in the country outside of Woodstock, ON.  On that long hour drive, we didn’t have three or four screens to look at all the time. Our faces were glued to the window watching the world go by at a death defying forty five miles per hour. Explain that to you grandkids. I scratch my head sometimes when I see a van full of children in the back seats staring at a screen and never once looking out the window to see the beauty of our world flying by at one hundred twenty kilometers an hour. Back to the farm. It had so much to search out from the hay loft and the mice and trying to catch the feral cats, to watching the cows come to the barn on their own for milking.

The places we went then were filled with people. People we loved and they loved us back. Church has also been like that. Today our society might be missing both to some degree. If we are fortunate enough, we still go to church picnics and our families reunions. One day, when we get to heaven, there will be no more screens to look at. There will be just two things to attract our attention. There will be one big church picnic; it will be like summer vacation forever. There we will not only meet Jesus face to face but as we see all the beauty of heaven prepared for us by a loving God and there we will experience one amazing family reunion.

"I'm so glad, I'm a part

Of the family of God..."

Something to think about

Rob