Purple Bumblebees

While cutting the lavender wands for my anointing oil the most unexpected thing happened. I was dive bombed by a purple bumblebee. The bumblebee was covered with the purple pollen from the flowers on the wands. It wanted the pollen and it was willing to let me know to move back. Now as a kid one of my summer pastimes was catching bees in a jar. We always had little white flowers all over the yard and I always had an empty jar and more courage than was smart for a scrawly little kid. I could catch five bumblebees in a baby food jar before one of them buzzed out. Then I would drop the jar and all the bees would swarm out and sent me running and screaming into the house. I think of bees as childhood friends. So I got very close to the bee today and watched it go from flower wand to flower wand. I was amazed that it was purple. And I thought about the anointing oil I was going to make. And I thought about the oil representing the Presence of God. And I thought about how cool it would be to just be like the bee covered in the anointing and glory of God with a visible tangible evidence that was plain to the naked eye. And then I thought about Moses coming down off of Mt. Sinai with such a tangible evidence of the glory of the Lord on his face that he had to cover it with a cloth.  That happened on Shavuot the day the Torah was given. The day we celebrate today and on Pentecost Sunday. And here is my prayer for today: Oh Lord make me like Moses with my face covered in your glory. Make my face to shine with Your Presence. Let me be like a simple purple bumblebee covered in the evidence of where I have been and let that be with you! This is Pastor Susan Living the Everyday Prophetic Life while picking flowers.