"...apart from me you can do nothing..." John15
Walking down Oxford Street in Central London is not easy this time of year. While dodging the crowds and pick pockets on the street, you also have to endure the onslaught of advertising and overcrowded window displays, all competing for your attention. Using some of the best mannequins in the world, these stores play into our natural fascination with the human body. But what are they telling us besides, "You need a 200 pound coat to stay warm this winter."?
I was amazed to see that the mannequins are even skinnier this year, even the pregnant ones. But what confused me even more was the headless ones. Are we supposed to picture our own heads on them or what? In them I saw the perfect parable for what the church (God's Body), is beginning to look like. A fashionable and good looking display, but powerless and still without a Head to move it.
This season, as the world pushes it's materialism and self-sufficient versions of good will and generosity, let's remember the source (head) from where all good things flow from. And though it seems we can do alot without even one thought towards God. From His perspective we can be just like "Thing" from the Adam's Family. A headless hand scrambling around who needs to find an arm-elbow-shoulder-and neck that will help her/him better connect to the Head. This is what His Body was made for.
You.
Remember, even Thing needed a Family...
Have a Blessed Week,
Brandon and Pamela
PS - We changed our Sat. Fellowship to be at the Frost Fair in Southbank. It's FREE! Meet @ Trafalgar Square at 12pm. If lost phone Brandon 07976 106 763
I was amazed to see that the mannequins are even skinnier this year, even the pregnant ones. But what confused me even more was the headless ones. Are we supposed to picture our own heads on them or what? In them I saw the perfect parable for what the church (God's Body), is beginning to look like. A fashionable and good looking display, but powerless and still without a Head to move it.
This season, as the world pushes it's materialism and self-sufficient versions of good will and generosity, let's remember the source (head) from where all good things flow from. And though it seems we can do alot without even one thought towards God. From His perspective we can be just like "Thing" from the Adam's Family. A headless hand scrambling around who needs to find an arm-elbow-shoulder-and neck that will help her/him better connect to the Head. This is what His Body was made for.
You.
Remember, even Thing needed a Family...
Have a Blessed Week,
Brandon and Pamela
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