Tomson When I was a about three or four years old my family did not have a combine, so we harvested the corn crop with a two-row New Idea corn picker mounted on an Allis-Chalmers narrow front D17 and a pull bed wagon to catch the ears of corn. Sometimes I got to ride in the wagon. I thought that it was great fun.

One particular day, I went to the field with my grandpa. As I watched the corn fall into the wagon I became hypnotized by yellow-orange ears of corn against the back drop of the blue sky and I went to sleep like so many youngsters do around farm equipment. My grandpa, worrying about the job at hand, forgot about me being in the wagon. An ear of corn hitting me in the face awakened me; was covered up to my neck in corn. He must have remembered that was in the wagon after he had filled it because all at once the tractor stopped and a frantic grandpa Herbert stuck his head over the front gate looking for me. You can imagine his fears of hurting or loosing his oldest grandson on one of the first occasions that they were alone together.

How often do you and I place Christ in the wagon behind the area where all of the work is being done and forget about Him, only to remember Him again at Christmas and Easter? In church leadership we sometimes refer to the "C. and E." crowd, but how often do we practice a "C. and E." faith because we are too busy with getting our church work done?

God is committed to us full-time, and we should be committed to Him full-time. From the faithful weekly attendees to those that have never enter a church's doors, we need to know that God wants to be involved, rather than just a passenger in the wagon, forgotten until the work is done. He wants to impact our lives, but will we let Him?

Pastor Jeff Tomson is interim

pastor at Living Faith Church of the Brethren. against