Pumpkin Tale (Pack Of 25)

Sarah and Jacob stood by the window, watching. They could hardly wait for Daddy to get home from work. Today was the day he had promised to help them make a jack-o-lantern. At 5:30 on the dot, Daddy?s car pulled into the driveway. ?Are you guys ready to go pick out a pumpkin?? he called.?Hooray!? yelled Jacob.?Let?s go!? cried Sarah, running out to the car.In a few minutes they arrived at the biggest pumpkin patch the children had ever seen. There were hundreds and hundreds of pumpkins. Big ones, small ones. Round ones, long ones. Yellow and orange and green. Sarah and Jacob walked up and down every row, searching for just the right pumpkin for their jack-o-lantern. ?There?look at that one!? Sarah pointed. It was the roundest, largest, brightest orange pumpkin in the patch. Jacob could hardly get his arms around it.?I think you found the perfect pumpkin,? Daddy smiled. They carried it back to the car. When they got home, Daddy placed the pumpkin on the kitchen table. As he began to carve the jack-o-lantern, he said, ?Do you know that being a Christian is a lot like being a pumpkin???It is?? asked Sarah.Jacob looked puzzled. ?What do you mean???Well,? said Daddy, ?first God picks each one of us out of the patch. He chooses us to be His very own. Next, He cleans us from the inside out. He scoops all the yucky stuff out of our hearts?the sin?the bad things we say or do. After t

Ditchfield, Christin