Monday, June 29, 2009
God Loves Humpty Dumpty's
I grew up in Mildura. Our family owned the Humpty Dumpty Tourist Farm - it was home to the Worlds Biggest Humpty Dumpty.
I was reminded when I watched this video of the nursery rhyme about Humpty...Let me sing it too you...or at least give you the lyrics..."HUMPTY DUMPTY SAT ON THE WALL. HUMPTY DUMPTY HAD A GREAT FALL. ALL THE KINGS HORSES AND ALL THE KINGS MEN, COULDN'T PUT HUMPTY TOGETHER AGAIN"
I wondered to my self...I think that this nursery rhyme is actually more theologically correct than many of our worship songs today. Can a nursery rhyme be more theologically sound than a CCLI worship song? Ponder this...Humanity was like Humpty Dumpty (You need to get past the big egg and head idea and the fact that Humpty Dumpty is not human at all for this to work) We were created good. We fell from our wall. We were broken and shattered (srambled perhaps). The image of God in us shattered, our picture of God distorted. The powers, the rulers the promises, hopes and dreams of life and purpose that pop culture offers us fails to put us together again. All the Kings, All the Caesars, All the Powers, All the Individualism, All the Consumerism cannot put these broken Humpty Dumpty's together again.
God has not given up on the world. God loves Humpty's. The gospels offers us a new way to be human. A new and better way to live life. May we let God put us back together again.
Ponderings...Is the gospel we proclaim making a new and better world?
Is the gospel to us an invitation to a whole new way of life?
What is the Gospel?
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3 comments:
Where is humpty now?
Still looking..... has anybody seen him?
He's at Yackandandah.
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