"Confessions of a former
7-ft. bunny rabbit."

I was a 7-foot bunny rabbit once [Sorry, no picture].

            When we lived in Houston, our church was planning strategies for publicizing an upcoming Vacation Bible School.  I decided to rent a costume that would provide entertainment during VBS week.  I planned to dress up like a clown and hoped to be as funny as the clowns I had seen in the circus when I was a kid. 

            I went to the costume rental store to check out possibilities, but I discovered that they had rented out everything in my size, except.you guessed it, a white bunny outfit.  I am over 6-feet tall, and the long ears added an additional foot straight up.  It suddenly hit me that God was calling me to become a 7-foot rabbit, not permanently, of course.

            When I showed up at church wearing the costume, fellow members gave me a really hard time.  I'm sure that some questioned my sanity and that others questioned whether God had ever led anyone to wear a rabbit suit.  But I figured that if God could humble Himself by putting on human skin, I could swallow my pride and put on fake fur for His glory. (John 1:14)

            One of our VBS helpers was a volunteer fireman.  He offered to drive a big red fire truck for our main publicity event.  So here was the scene:  early Saturday morning, we all piled on the truck and went out into the surrounding neighborhoods.  Our fireman brother drove slowly, sounding the siren, which brought people out of their houses to investigate.  Women in robes stepped off their porches and looked our direction, cupping their hands over their brows and squinting in the morning sunlight.  Sure enough, there was a red fire truck with a dozen children and a large, white bunny rabbit hanging off the side.  Now that's something they didn't see every day. 

Almost all the ladies ran excitedly back into their houses and brought their kids right out to the curb to see this curiosity.  The smaller ones looked up at me with wonder in their innocent eyes.  The older ones tugged at my fuzzy gloves, trying to pull them off.  I talked to everyone, trying my best to sound like my favorite rabbit, Bugs Bunny.  

It turned out to be the most successful Bible school ever.  We had over 300 children in attendance...