(This might go easier with a certain Coldplay song in the background)
It might be hard to see or understand or imagine at this
time of year, but there really is such a thing as “good yellow”.
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When we’re in a
silly mood, that’s how we sometimes answer the phone. “Yell-O”.
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There’s the lemon
wedge in a glass of sweet tea, a sign of our hospitality and the refreshment we
offer each other.
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Smiley faces are
yellow, too. So, have a nice day.
·
They make yellow
golf balls, and they’re supposed to be easy to find. I know firsthand they float just as well as
the white ones.
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Daffodils are
yellow. Dandelions are, too. It pays to know the difference, but nothing
tickles me more than watching toddlers pick yellow dandelion blossoms to
present to their parents. They accept
that handful of weeds like they were a prom corsage.
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Yellow roses mean
friendship. That’s good yellow—unless they’re
from your boyfriend.
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Highlighters are
yellow. Some folks mark verses in their
Bibles with them. That’s good, too…
unless you’ve highlighted Revelation 9:17, the verse that describes the bad guys
wearing red, blue and YELLOW armor.
·
Frosted banana
Zingers are yellow—and that’s really good… unless you have a problem with too
much sugar or you worry about preservatives—party poopers.
·
The Yellow Pages
is filled with plenty of good listings—even if the bail bond companies occupy
several of the first lines.
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The Beatles sang,
“We all live in a Yellow Submarine.” It probably
was white when they started.
Even
all that yellow pollen out there is good—it is!
Yes, it’s all over our cars, and swirling around in miniature saffron
tornadoes. Yes, we choke on it, and it
makes our eyes itch. BUT it makes the
plants grow. You like peaches, don’t
you??
It
only takes a tiny amount of pollen for each plant to survive, to make seeds and
thus make more plants. BUT without the
pollen, they die. So, each plant
produces what it needs in abundance.
They aren’t waiting around for the law of averages to catch up with
them.
What
about us? When we think about what we
need to survive—faith, hope and love, namely—do we have enough to get by on? At first glance, it may look like there is
never enough. Sort of the opposite of
how we’re looking at pollen this time of year.
We might find it easy to wonder if there is a shortage of faith, hope
and love, but we have good news. Jesus
said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” Let’s roll around in that surplus!
We
can look outside and see an abundance of yellow. Let’s let it remind us that we can look
inside and see the good excess of things Jesus has supplied for us. Ephesians
3:20-21 says,
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations,
forever and ever. Amen.
