Saturday, March 22, 2008
Diamonds in the Mud
A little girl is playing in her yard, when her Father steps out the front door. Slowly He goes over and kneels down in front of her. With all His love and joy pouring from His smile He pulls a beautiful doll from behind His back, a doll with bright blue eyes and a full, white dress. “Take care of her” the Father gently tells the girl and hands her the doll. Clasping it to her chest the girl skips around the yard, her Father looking on. She prances across the yard and, opening her arms, drops the doll in a mud puddle. Kneeling next to it she leans over to pat mud into the white dress. Her Father watches, His eyes no longer shining but dulled with pain, as His gift, so preciously bestowed, is cheapened and ruined.
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I like this as a snapshot. It seems it could have several possible specific or more general deeper meanings. My question is, what did the author mean by it?
hmmm...what an unexpected question :)
God has given us sexuality as a gift, to be encouraged in the proper context (marriage). But we, individually and as a culture, have turned it from the blessing God intended it to be and degraded and cheapened it.
I wanted to convey what it was like when we, God's children, took His gift and used it to feed our own flesh. We have taken something precious, and dragged it through the mud.
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