Today was pretty sweet. Kim and I joined some new friends to take our kids to the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts kids’ day. I guess our Arts Fest is a pretty big deal, but I have to admit that my expectations were pretty low. We’ve lived here for 11 years, and I’ve managed to avoid kids’ day every year. But I must confess that today was pretty cool.
We got to walk around downtown State College/PSU for a couple of hours, taking in all the sights, sounds, and smells of the arts fest. Loads of kids had tables lining the streets selling their handmade goods. There were more earrings than you could shake a stick at, and we brought home a bundle. Of course, there was a booth selling daggers and swords finely crafted out of wood–Levi would have begged for another sword to add to his arsenal. It was fun to give the girls some of their own money (babysitting pay!) to spend. The PSU Chemistry dept had a booth where they were making ice cream using liquid Nitrogen (interesting, but not very tasty) that all our kids had to sample. We topped the afternoon off with a huge bag of kettle corn for the girls to share.
But for me, one of the highlights was talking to all the people. I’ll bet we ran into a hundred people we knew from our church or one of the churches we hang out with in town. I love talking to people, seeing them in town, catching up outside of church. It’s good to be part of this community. I continue to believe that God has a dream for the Centre Region, that he has a plan for the redemption and restoration of this area. It was good to walk around and pray for God to move in the lives of all those people today.
The only thing that would have made it better is having Levi with us. He’s visiting his grandparents for a couple of weeks, working at their camp and spending time with cousin Wes. I should have bought him a sword. He’d have loved that.
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