The Lord of the Harvest

In February some special friends of ours come to visit.  Jim and Patsy are long time friends from when we served in Columbus, GA.  They came with David on their first foreign mission trips back in the 90s and fell in love with Guatemala and her people.  They have continued to come at least a year since their first arrival.  Their home is decorated with LOTS of Guatemala treasures...makes us feel VERY much at home when we visit.  One of their favorites places to visit and purchase items is the wood factory.  His fruits and vegetable carvings are so realistic that more than one person returning home has been stopped to have their baggage checked..."Are you certain you don't have any fruits in your bags?"  And then are passed right on through the line when the agents see the wooden apples.

This past February trip, they gave us a beautiful wood carving.

Taken from Matthew 9:37, the spanish reads -- "The ripe corn is much more, the workers few."

I wanted to hang it on a wall in the dining room, but it just need something to hang alonside it.  I kept looking for something that would shout out "This is it!  You need me!"  The other day in the market I saw it.  I answered its call and bought it home.

The fields are filled.  The harvest is ready. There are few laborers.

Though it has a definite Guatemalan look,

it has a universal look.

The symbolism is so strong.

"Then He said to His disciples, `The Harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. 

Therefore beseech the Lord of the harest to send out workers into His harvest.'"

Matthew 9:37-38

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,

 baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

teaching them to observe all that I commanded you;

and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

Matthew 28:19-20