Pumpkins to me are just one example of the everyday metaphor of what we are, how we have gotten here, and proof of life around us. (God's great gifts to us).
As I planted my package of pumpkins this last spring, (there were two seeds in the whole packet). My children and I eagerly awaited the first seedlings, and then the flowers, etc. To my disappointment I could not understand why in early to mid-summer, we had had an abundance of beautiful orange blooms so proudly stretching towards the sun God shone on them, but never, had a pumpkin developed from these. I puzzled my puzzler, and puzzled some more, and finally resorted to asking my knowledgeable friends at http://www.gardenweb.com Amazingly enough, what I thought would be such a simple process (you know the simple dirt+sun+water=plant formula) was instead a delicate and complicated process where there is a man flower, and a woman flower, and generally bees or other bugs (or crazed gardening lady Stacey with a paintbrush) that must act as the "match-maker". So as I married the gentleman in waiting with the rare lady that finally graced our garden, you can imagine my excitement to find that the two were indeed in love, and a baby was growing! However, despite my enthusiasm and appreciation of such a miracle, my growing pumpkins eventually had fallen prey to the pests that had been stalking them.
Regardless of my failure with pumpkin growing, my family and I were abundantly blessed with pumpkins from other sources. Here is what we have done, and what we will do.
If you do decorate pumpkins...
You will find that by waiting longer to buy your pumpkins, you can often times get these pumpkins cheaper, and they will also last until after the holiday (if you celebrate it), provided that you consider painting or gluing on decorations rather than carving.
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