From Storm troopers to strays, God invites us all to join the parade towards Heaven.
Our local Christmas parade was last weekend. I live in a small town and my little town really turns out for the Christmas Parade. This year, my son was marching in it with his high school band. They were supposed to wear their uniforms and a Santa hat, which I went to Walmart and purchased and then promptly left on the dining room table. Well, he left it on the table.
I sent my son to go to go meet his band mates while I stayed behind and waited for my sweet hubby to bring me the aforementioned hat. I parked a good distance away from the parade line-up, so on my way to give my son his hat, I passed most of the floats.
There was Christmas music playing from all directions and everyone I passed, had a smile on their face. Leave it to a Christmas parade to put everyone in a festive mood. I passed by Boy Scout troops and Brownie troops, baton twirlers and gymnasts. The little ones always make me smile.
Then I passed by a float with an out house on it. That really made me chuckle. Next, I passed by some fully uniformed storm troopers. Then I saw Wonder Woman. I told her that she looked cold. She told me that she was. I also told her she looked fabulous. She thanked me.
Once I finally reached my son, who was very close to the beginning of the route, I went and found a place to stand to watch them all come by. I again marveled at the wildly varied cast of characters. There were churches represented and businesses. There were people on horses, and people walking dogs who needed adopting, and about twenty-five John Deere tractors all decked out in tinsel and bows.
Everyone who came by waved and said, “Merry Christmas!” as they tossed candy into the crowd. The children couldn’t have cared less about who the people were in the parade; they just appreciated the candy they had to give.
It struck me that Christians are much like that wild cast of characters in that parade. We come in different shapes, sizes and colors. We are old and young. We have many different passions and gifts and God wants us to use every one of them to glorify Him and build His kingdom.
It doesn’t matter whether we are twirlers, or cheerleaders, or march in the band, or love to ride horses, or dune buggies, or enjoy fostering stray dogs. God invites us to bring whatever it is that we love, whatever we have, whoever we are to Him and join the parade towards Heaven.
He invites us to put on our walking shoes and smile and wave and invite others to join us. He made us each wonderfully unique and we each have a place in His wild cast of characters. He’s waiting for you.
What are you waiting for?
Have an awesome day!
Wendy 🙂