VBS

Last week I went back home to help out at Vacation Bible School. I've always loved VBS and this year was no different. I love seeing a church care more about kiddos loving Jesus than their building. As I left on the last day I saw a roundish pink spot on a wall about three and a half feet up. It made me smile to realize that it was probably from the back of a kid's pink-hairsprayed head on crazy hair day. In my mind I could see him lined up next to the wall, waiting to go into Missions, completely unaware that the paint didn't have a chance against his fuchsia hair do. I love seeing a group of adults and young people sacrificing their time to have fun with kids because they want them to get to know Jesus. I love spending a week/getting to know/having a blast with kids I may or may not know. But I think what I love the most about VBS is that it's a week of hearing and remembering the most basic and profound truths of my faith.

The theme this year was about Creation. And I think the main message there is that you are special because God made you in his own image and He loves you SO much that He died for you. I've become used to that message because I've been hearing all my life, but it is so powerful. I don't know if I can ever truly grasp the big-ness of that truth or if it will ever really permeate all the way through. It's funny how something so foundational and so much a part of me can still be new and breathtaking.

As is not-so-unusual I was also taken by a song this week. My mom spent her week with Kindergardeners and she came home singing this song. Again, it's something so simple yet so...true.

My God is so big, so strong, and so mighty
There's nothing my God cannot do
My God is so big, so strong, and so mighty
There's nothing my God cannot do

The oceans are his
The mountains are his
The stars are His handiwork too

My God is so big, so strong, and so mighty
There's nothing my God cannot do