Anyways, I did also have some positive experiences with Christianity, mainly through Vacation Bible School as a kid, because there were crafts and games and picnics and cakewalks and a "fishing pond" where you could get toys on the other end of the fishing pole after you threw the line over the screen, and sawdust pile where you could dig up coins, and a pinata, and releasing balloons up into the sky, oops, sorry that was probably bad for the environment, but it looked pretty, and my grandma was the one who ran the Vacation Bible School program, and my grandma was also the one who drove by a field where a migrant worker was laboring and she said that sometimes other people do this but to not say bad things about Mexicans because they work very hard and she knew because she worked very hard too when she was growing up on the farm and only completed 8th grade and had to stay home and work and they used to call her horse because she worked so hard and that wasn't funny, and she really liked children. And she like to encourage creativity in all ways, especially with children, and you know she had five of her own kids and she was a lot different from me. But anyway, she was an influence on me. And I feel like in the church I went to, Jesus always looked brown and tan, although maybe in a more Caucasian way. And they taught us to sing "Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world." It's a real song, but it feels like lots of people aren't really living by that message very much these days!
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