The year was 2013 and I received an email from a
former coworker wondering if I would like to make some money to do a special
project for a company that I had worked for several years before. The
assignment was to build a skull for Halloween for a client of theirs.
I should probably interject
that I am way too spiritual to celebrate Halloween and didn’t want to do
anything connected with it. Well, part of that is true; I choose to not
celebrate Halloween because of the evil connotations connected with it and
wasn’t interested in building a skull for anyone’s house.
But, Cathy and I had been
dialoging the previous months about how we could create places of grace where unconvinced people can come to know and
wholeheartedly follow Jesus Christ. This includes those who walk with Him as well as those who
haven’t yet met Him, so that each may know the hope of the
calling of Jesus Christ for their lives.
So I sent a reply asking for
more information before I said no and agreed to stop by their office to look at
the plans and set up a time to do so.
At the meeting, it was
discussed that they wanted the skull to be on the front of the house and around
twelve feet high! The skull was going to be installed on the side of a massive
pirate ship that covered the whole front of the client’s house. The mouth of
the skull would be the gang plank through which people would walk to get their
candy; which I was told were expensive candy bars, not some cheap candy.