My friends and I were laughing last night about t-shirt slogans and tossed a few around including the first one featured below. I know that one would run into copyright issues if I tried to make it for real but it was fun to design.
Sometimes I think that as Christians we take ourselves too seriously here’s a few slogans that laugh at us a little and would maybe make great t-shirt designs.
words create – which is why we writers write.
words create realities and worlds which we inhabit by our imagination.
words create us and define us – they create the world we inhabit and live out of. it happens to everyone – but sometimes we don’t recognise it or believe it or we forget it and we let others throw their word garbage over us and wonder why we end up feeling dirtied.
words had and have a big part in creating who you and i now are.
sometimes we need a closet clean out to happen in our mind – to take out the words that once defined us, or define us now, look at them and ask does this fit, does this suit me – who i am and who i want to be, and if not to chuck those old word clothes out and put on some new ones.
this is a piece i wrote a while ago about words, i know its not a new piece but i was thinking this morning about the power words have and decided that would be a good entry for this blog.
words
words
like a ragged coat
from a childhood long gone
i wear them in my mind.
cold comfort
this coat that no longer fits
but I can’t throw it away.
words
wrapped around my spirit
not wanted
dirty
ugly
unclean
unclean
unclean.
words
my constant companions
childhood bullies
that taunted and hurt
that over time
became me
became who I am.
yet you
see me differently
and call me
to be someone new.
trade coats you say.
can I let go
do I dare try on this new coat
these new words
and see how they fit.
i know I must give up the old
to become the new
so I struggle to surrender
struggle
surrender.
surrender the old
to take hold of the new
so I must
so I do.
new words
seem foreign to my mind.
my new coat
seems too big
yet trust I must
knowing I will grow
until i fit
my new coat
copyright Lyn Packer 2001
while it’s true that we were created and our existance came into being at a particular point in time our creation did not stop on that day. it didn’t stop when childhood ended and our body stopped growing in height. it didn’t stop then and it will never stop. we are still being created – by what others say to us but more importantly what we say to ourselves. those words shape and define us and we will become those words over time.
you have the power to create and everyday you are taking part in making your greatest creation ever – creating you. don’t settle for a second rate creation, don’t settle for being a second-best you, simply because words that no longer have a right to define you are still cluttering your mind closet. chuck them out, put on some new clothes and see yourself stand up straighter in the mirror of life.
you’re worth it!
mycreativefire 