symbolism

It’s a symbol, or cymbal. Or a base or a snare. I had to throw my corny jokes in there J

I never looked into symbols like the reading in our text did.  When I worked at a summer camp this past summer, we had a lot of counselors who were from other countries like England, Scotland, and Australia. It was always fun and interesting to compare certain symbol with American and English culture. For example, when Americans hold up two fingers its like the sign for peace. But in England and Scotland, it’s a curse word. Its interesting how different symbols mean different words or phrases in different countries.  Sometimes we have to find out the hard way unfortunately. Towards the beginning of the story, it talks about stop signs and how we have naturally programmed in our minds that a stop is a red octagon with the word “stop” written in the middle. We would often pass by a stop sign with a different design because we have not programmed our minds think stop when we see something other than the red octagon. When I read this I couldn’t help but to think of how we look at the bible sometimes. In a common verse such as john 3:16, I think a lot of us have simply just memorized it and move on. But it takes a lot of attention to understand the fullness and meaning of john 3:16 and when we don’t see it or don’t get it, we just move on. We keep driving because something in front of us is unfamiliar and instead of stopping to look closely at the symbolism we just brush it off..Or run the stop sign.  

I also saw this play on friday night. I'm not gonna lie, it was hard for me to follow. I didnt really understand the plot of the play and it was actually kind of boring to me. I'm glad I was an usher.