Finals Fruit Snacks.

Every finals week I take a little jaunt up to the grocery store to pick up an exciting themed box of fruit snacks and I put them in my backpack. Fruit snacks are really great stress relieving study companions. They also remind me of the simplicity of being a kid. Sometimes we take finals just to darn seriously. OK, I care about the outcome of this week but is it really worth all the stress? We become so tunnel-visioned that we forget to look up and see the wonder of the world around us, still in motion.

This quarter's theme is, "create your own bug" fruit snacks. I didn't think of it at the time but it ties so perfectly into what I've been thinking about this quarter. God's kingdom is overflowing with imagination, not only of the greater reality that is to come but also imagination reflected in every ounce of creation present to us now...that includes bugs. I'm determined to soak in the imagination amidst the seemingly endless hours of studying to come.