I’m sitting here typing that as my son, Berkley, watches a show on Netflix for kids. He mainly watches just two shows. Curious George (duh) and The Color Crew. Why he loves the Color Crew so much, I have no idea. There are a total of four 32 minute episodes. We’ve probably watched them each (no joke) easily 100 times in his 10 month old life. He LOVES it!
All the show is is a crayons bouncing around mumbling, giggling, laughing coloring things in. Literally the only intelligible words that come out of the show are color names. So if an orange crayon is bouncing around making grunting noises as it hops around and then colors in a pumpkin on the screen it will exclaim “ORANGE!!!” at which Berkley shakes uncontrollably and laughs, smiles, or screams in excitement.
This is the entire show.
In a small way (bear with me) For whatever reason it made me think of God and us humans. In this situation if God were Berkley and we’re the crayons and he’s looking at us, watching us move around, create, and operate in the world he’s pretty interested in what we are doing…watching intently…just waiting for something intelligible to come out of us. How Berkley gets excited about the words that occasionally come out of the colors, I think those are things like LOVE, GRACE, FORGIVENESS, PEACE to God. And the mumbling and grunting is us trying figure things out or messing up or have different ways going about getting to the point that we show LOVE, GRACE, FORGIVENESS, PEACE. Berkley isn’t really interested in the inbetween part but when the crayon exclaims “BLUE!!!” he gets pretty pumped about it.
At the end of the day, God gets pretty excited when his creation finds and lives and exclaims the meaningful stuff. That’s what matters. The mumbling, grunting, moving around could be doctrine or method or something but in the end as long as it leads to something meaningful and intelligible and exemplifies Jesus…that’s what God gets excited about.
So, get to know your colors.
Ty Paluska 