241 / 365 A Sign of Things to Come

For many years our youth group at Mt. Zion UMC has sponsored a pumpkin-patch fundraiser to support its various activities.  At the beginning of October, a huge semi-trailer filled with pumpkins arrives from New Mexico, and the kids (along with parent volunteers) unload thousands of the big orange globes into the designated field behind the church.  A second truck arrives a couple of weeks later with a new batch and the process happens all over again.  By Halloween all the pumpkins are gone.

This afternoon as I was leaving work, I looked out at the empty field and noticed a lone clump of vines with something orange poking through.  Upon further investigation, I realized that a seed from last year had germinated on its own and that a single pumpkin was growing in the patch, ready and waiting for the season to begin.