Imposters

Are you fooled easily? Can you tell the real thing from an imposter? Have you ever thought about how many things in our life creep in and we "think" it's real thing, but it's not?

Purely by accident, we have a crop of squash that has grown in our garden. Evidently, we must have thrown some squash seed out there last year and when Dale came over and plowed the garden for us, low and behold, squash started growing!

Blooms are everywhere and we have been so excited about all the yellow crookneck squash we would reap from this crop we didn't even intentionally plant. I've watered it, tended it and daily walked out to the garden and gotten tickled pink. Why should I assume that I had imposter squash?? It "looked" real to me.

But as the squash has begun to sprout....I'm not sure what in the heck kind of squash it is!! Some of it looks like watermelons, some look like gourds, some look like they're some weird variety that happened by accident!

I've been duped! I've been fooled by imposter squash! It LOOKED like yellow crookneck squash plants and has flowers like yellow crookneck squash but it's some other sort of weird looking squash!

It was a reminder to me today to be cautious in this life of "thinking" we know the real thing when it might be an imposter. This can be applied from anything to drinking generic soft drinks to believing in a false god, thinking we're believing in the right one.

We are an easily fooled society......be sure that what you're believing in is the real thing or you may be in for a big surprise and it might not be a good one.