First, here's another church doodle for you. On Sunday Ron Ayers preached about the significance of the gifts that the Magi brought. This is how I envisioned the frankincense:
Yes, I know it's cheesy, but I enjoyed it non-the-less. I think I'm going to re-do a little differently in one of my sketchbooks, make a little more subtle (and hopefully less cheesy).I did the projection for the Christmas service at Manchester a couple of weeks ago so I spent a lot of time hearing Christmas hymns and I have come to the conclusion that we need some new ones. At the very least update the language so I know what I'm singing. It's not that I don't love the hymns we have, I very much do, but sometimes I have no clue what I'm singing. For example, in the song "What child is this?" There is a line that goes "Haste, haste to bring Him laud..." What the heck is laud? How am I suppose to bring it to the babe, the son of Mary if I don't know what it is?
Fun story, last Sunday at Manchester we sang "Silent Night" and when I saw the words " 'Round yon virgin mother and child" and I noticed the apostrophe before the word "round" implying "around." Up until that point I had thought that "round" was describing the pregnant virgin. Who knew?
One last thing I want to comment on is the fact that whenever there is a nativity scene that includes the three wise men, one of them is always black. I don't understand it. Did some historians get together back in the day and say to each other:
"Ya know, I think one of wise men was black."
"Huh, that makes sense."
"Yeah, let's alert the Christian bookstores to let them know."
But it's not just the bookstores, Brandi has a little Charlie Brown nativity set. One of wise men is black. I watched a Christmas episode of Scrubs last night. At one point J.D. had a vision of everyone as part of a nativity scene. Turk was a wise man.
All of that said, I hope you have a great Christmas.
1 comment:
Don't feel bad about the "'round yon virgin" thing. My dad's been telling a joke my whole life about a kid who drew a fat man and a skinny lady into his nativity scene and said they were Lottie Moon and Round John Virgin.
As far as the black wise man thing goes, I don't think it was historians--I think it was probably just some typical Americans who felt we needed to be a little diverse. If we're going to be correct, Jesus doesn't need to be a white baby either, but commerce likes to play into our racial preferences and stereotypes.
Hope you had a good Christmas!
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