I scribble in crayon
According to me
Your head is oversized
And oddly shaped
I scribble in crayon
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8 comments:
Which of Crayola's 64 crayon colors were you using at the time?
Midnight Blue?
Carnation Pink?
Burnt Sienna?
Maize?
Sea Green?
Perhaps Sepia?
I use all of them, Dan. I never was any good at restraint when it comes to color...
That's crayon, LE, not canyon.
Perhaps I am G'Nesh, and my head IS large and oddly shaped...
(The train was bouncing when I read the post originally)
That's pretty funny!
Your post comes at an appropriate time, my systematic theology professor seems to think that theology is all just "people talking about people talking about God". Oh, and trying to use inclusive God-symbols. And lovely as inclusive symbolism is, I am thinking that if these people ever did encounter God, they'd be less worried about God's large and oddly shaped head, gender, color, or number of arms. It simply isn't the point.
...Yes, it grouches me out...
Grouching notwithstanding, it’s pretty cool that you’re in a space where you get to think about these types of things.
It’s easy enough to slip into the faulty logic that if we haven’t gotten it all right then we’ve gotten it all wrong. The crayon-scribble metaphor helps me a lot. When a child creates a portrait of a parent, accuracy is not the point. The stirring thing is the impulse to symbolically depict a seeing/knowing event. The parent might not be universally recognizable in the child’s crayon scribbles but that diminishes neither the presence of the parent nor the perception of the child, nor the relationship between them.
Furthermore, the parent delights in these imperfect portraits and posts them proudly on the refrigerator.
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