Local Harvest

Crouched to the right of two skateboarder spectators, I held my position with patient expectation. The main attraction ran across Cherry Park’s historical stage with his organic vehicle tossed down and pounced upon like a warrior cat. The skateboarder spectator moved into the right frame to my discontentment. The saying has given way to come what may. The variety of onlookers set in the right frame of the background have their mobile devices set-up to record the noteworthy feat. We’re all ready for this moment. The perseverance in practice pays off in a moment of perfection. In a divided second, he dashed down the launch pad off the edge across a 15-foot gap. A backside 180 perhaps caught in the air. The sudden impact of his body weight properly planted on the flip deck made a safe landing on the concrete in sheer exhilaration. Spectators and congratulators flood around the skater’s labor fostered his continued growth with cheers of joy. The movement in front of my lens couldn’t be controlled, but rather embraced by the final exposure’s result. The scene here revealed what Jesus said about the local harvest. Abandon the intellectual commerce of trading posts for the ripened fruit, grown in rows of furrows, gladly gathered together; triumphantly ushered into eternal life.

John 4:34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”