Here's an experiment for you. Type the word "beauty" in your browser. Then click on the images tag. Voilà . . . this is what our culture thinks about beauty: it is external, skin deep, and that which tantalizes the senses.
I am just finishing the book, The Power of Communication by Helio Fred Garcia. Garcia has opened my eyes to the power of metaphor. A metaphor is a "word that stands in for something much broader than its literal meaning."
President John F. Kennedy stood before a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961 and made the announcement that would change the world: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." - John 15:5 ESV
Wednesday was a bad day! It was a bad day because I still had the crud . . . that body-aching, head-splitting, sinus-clogging, throat-hacking crud. You've been there, right?
