A Four-Leaf Clover, OH NO!

Eve grabbed a souvenir.

While there is no direct biblical significance for the four-leaf clover, Christian folklore suggests Eve took a four-leaf clover from the Garden of Eden as a memento of paradise.

Smart girl.

Her token was quite a rare trophy. The chance of finding a four-leafer in the paradise of your front lawn is about one in ten thousand, botanists say. Way to go, Eve! No wonder tradition has assigned to those four leaves the gifts of Faith, Hope, Love and Luck.

By the time Our Season of Faith wraps up its fourth and final episode this Sunday, will you have grabbed a priceless souvenir?
Have you been able to pluck a divine four-leaf clover from the music and the preaching and the fellowship to save in the scrapbook of your soul?

Think it’s too hard a search?
Maybe not!

Wondrously, a four-leaf clover grows in front of each of us, for the finding and the harvesting.
Just as it was there for Eve, it is available now for us all. Not as a reward. But as a gift. A token of grace. Paradise on a tiny stem.

Our promise cards that will mark the conclusion of Our Season of Faith are our responses to the magnificence of the four-leaf clover, not our bid to earn one.
Eve gathered a four-leaf clover because she could. Because it was always nearby.

We can, too.

Planet Earth will face its end when the Sun dies in about 7.5 billion years. Our church faces an end far sooner.
Our Season of Faith reaches the finish line this Sunday. Please join us for the final curtain and the Final Temptation Covered-Dish Lunch that follows.
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At First Christian Church, may 2026 be filled with Faith, Hope, Love and Luck.

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