pink plastic spoons

My fantasy job involves ice cream.   I think about how fun it would be to work at TCBY.  Handing out samples of new flavors, adding toppings, watching the simple joy that a refreshing dessert brings.

I thought about that today.  It was a day of repairs.  Taking out the trash, weeding the yard and an hour in the dentist chair filling a cavity.  Too much dreaming about ice cream!

Phillip Yancy in his book Vanishing Grace  takes my day of repairs and my day dreams and gives them a spiritual direction.

"By living out lives of grace in a spoiled environment, we point forward to a time of restoration.  One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the biblical prophets.  In a world gone astray we should be actively demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet."