We all brought our rocks we picked up while "crossing the creek" several weeks ago. We wrote our names on the rocks with silver permanent markers. And Tim's question is, "What do we do with the rocks now?" What kind of monument can we make to mark the occasion of our move to Franklin Road and a new beginning for Otter Creek?
The Old Testament is full of monuments and markers made by the patriarchs in their journeys across what we now call "The Holy Land." Often used to mark a momentous occasion, the monuments were real reminders of sometimes abstract truths played out in the soap-opera lives of those peripatetic nomads.
Monuments matter in our 20th century lives too--note the reverence we have for the Statue of Liberty, the Vietnam Memorial, the great statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington. However, in our religous tradition, momuments are sometimes suspect--we have come to equate them with icons which we avoid like the plague. Question--what monument do you know of that is associated with the Church of Christ? I can't think of even one.
So what do we do with our rocks now?
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