I love the parade!
I need some hand lotion. My daughter has used up the bottle I keep in my desk. I’ve been making a giant paper mache candle for the Wright’s Chapel float for the Bowling Green Christmas Parade next week. I haven’t decided if I want to tell you to look for it or just pretend our preschoolers made it. We’ll see how it turns out. But the water and paper mache is drying my hands out.
I love the parade. I love getting the kids and adults ready to ride on the float and walk beside it. I love the lights and the chilly air. It’s such a fun event. When we first entered a float a few years ago, we just put some kids in our Christmas pageant costumes and had them ride on the float. Last year, we had a little more going on. This year, we’re going to have a giant candle. Maybe. We are actually going to have fringe around the outside so it might actually look like it’s floating.
Our theme is “Let Your Light Shine.” This has been the theme at our Afterschool Program this fall. We’ve talked to the kids about how God’s light is inside everyone and that we need to find ways to let that light shine and light up the world. I hope that this float will be a way for God’s light to reach someone who is looking for a church home. Maybe they will see that we are having Christmas Eve services and come. Maybe they will see a lot of happy people on and around a float and come. Maybe they will feel sorry for our paper mache skills and come.
If you would like to be on or walk beside our float, come to the parade line-up area on Maury Avenue and find us before the parade. All are welcome! Please have an adult with smaller children. The parade starts at 5:00pm on Saturday, the 16th (rain date is the 17th – same time). Come and let the light of God shine through you!
