According to Pastor Charles Yoost there is a well-known saying in rural areas in the late summer. The saying is this: “Make sure you lock your car doors when you go into church.”

Now in urban areas we are often told to lock our cars even in church parking lots because something might be stolen while we are worshipping, perhaps even the car itself. But there’s an entirely different reason in rural areas. It’s just that when you come out of worship in rural areas, if you have unwittingly left your car unlocked in the late summer, you might find a bag of zucchini in the front seat! Zucchini squash is a very healthy food, but there’s nothing that grows more abundantly than zucchini--so gardeners are constantly giving zucchini to anyone who will take them. (1)

I thought of the abundance of zu…