Let’s look today at one of the best parades in history, and see if we can find some lessons for living life today.
Do you love parades? In America perhaps the most amazing parade is the annual Rose Bowl Parade held in Pasadena, California on New Years’ day. The float engineering is magnificent, but most amazing is that all the floats are decorated with real, live flowers. The colors are brilliant and it requires an army of people working 24 hours a day, for several days, under careful supervision, to assemble these spectacular displays and have them ready for daybreak on January 1st each year! Of course there are also marching bands and other celebration groups walking along the parade route, in this wonderful welcome of a new year. Sadly this COVID year, many such displays were cancelled. So would you join me as a spectator at a similar wonderful parade, held many years ago in Jerusalem? It’s reported for us in Nehemiah 12:27-43.