Missing the Point or Right on Target?
I was scanning Life is Good flair on facebook. (For those of you out of the "flair" loop, it's basically virtual buttons for your virtual cork board for your virtual life.) People can create their own buttons and post them as well, so about one of every twenty is a play on Life is Good. Sometimes it's the funny, Life is Crap stuff, but mostly it's people who have created buttons saying things like, "Life is good--eternal life is better" or "Life (with Jesus) is good."
Uhg, there's this gut reaction in me that says these folks are missing the point.
Life is good. It doesn't have to be separated into a Jesus category to be good. Sometimes sitting around a campfire is good. Sometimes a long hike is good. And as a Christian, I see God at work in the goodness--Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer. It's impossible not to see those things through God lenses.
But then again, I appreciate those lenses. When I hike, the knowledge that God has created and sustained what is around me is moving. It deepens my experience of hiking. And maybe messing with the Life is Good theme is someone's way of trying to remind everyone of God's presence--to deepen someone else's experience in the process.
So what's your take?
I was scanning Life is Good flair on facebook. (For those of you out of the "flair" loop, it's basically virtual buttons for your virtual cork board for your virtual life.) People can create their own buttons and post them as well, so about one of every twenty is a play on Life is Good. Sometimes it's the funny, Life is Crap stuff, but mostly it's people who have created buttons saying things like, "Life is good--eternal life is better" or "Life (with Jesus) is good."
Uhg, there's this gut reaction in me that says these folks are missing the point.
Life is good. It doesn't have to be separated into a Jesus category to be good. Sometimes sitting around a campfire is good. Sometimes a long hike is good. And as a Christian, I see God at work in the goodness--Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer. It's impossible not to see those things through God lenses.
But then again, I appreciate those lenses. When I hike, the knowledge that God has created and sustained what is around me is moving. It deepens my experience of hiking. And maybe messing with the Life is Good theme is someone's way of trying to remind everyone of God's presence--to deepen someone else's experience in the process.
So what's your take?
1 comment:
I think some Christians want to announce and/or advertise their religion, some for well intentioned, from the heart reasons, and some to show off or tell the world that they have found the answer and everyone else should get on board reasons. It's hard to tell the difference, and it's hard to know when it's okay to put Jesus out there. Do you keep your religion to yourself or do you try to spread the word?
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