PUMPKIN PARABLE

Zach had a goat show today, so they dropped Mathieu off with us bright and early this morning. He went to Mass with us, and then to religious ed. afterwards. After breakfast for the students, I had the yearly Halloween/All Saint's Day/All Soul's Day object lesson, using a pumpkin/jack-o-lantern. (removing yucky stuff, 2nd Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 2:10, Matthew 5:14-16, new creations, letting your light shine, lights going out and being restored, etc.) After that, Mathieu(3) went with the pre-K/K class, and I worked with the jr. high/high school group. When the classes were over, quite a few of the kids came back to get pumpkin seeds to take home and either toast or plant.
In the photo, you can see one side of the pumpkin; the other side had a face. And then one of the turkey boxes-in-progress is on the right side. I didn't get a good angle on it, though, so it's hard to see how the head is....and of course there is no autumn colored tissue paper in it, yet, either.