Thursday, July 24, 2008

Local Trivia: Not one of ours.

Yesterday on I-84 East, I glanced in my rearview mirror only to see a semi behind me -- with a giant, electric-lit cross on its front grill.

That truck's not from Connecticut, was my first thought. Then, seriously?

Curious, I slowed to let it pass so I could get a look at the plates: They were Georgia.

All is right with the world.

4 comments:

The Crabby Hiker said...

Yup. Toooooootally normal down this-a-way.

In the normal course of my monthly driving (in which I include trips to my parents' house), I pass not one, but two enormous, sky-high crosses made of what appears to be vinyl siding. I don't quite understand the impulse, but I have become acclimated to it.

Curious Monk said...

there's totally gotta be a way our generation can ironically subvert this. anyone hip enough to think of something?

Alicia said...

Pot leaf. (Mock the SoCo Christians and the hippies at the same time.)

brd said...

I live in cross zone. I have come to love the trucks and the aluminum crosses. When I ride my horses on 195 broad acres, absent of all but me and horses and trees and four eagles and some deer, I can look, when at the high point, across the river and hills, and see the aluminum cross.

I have started carrying a cross in my pocket. It is a disc with a celtic cross in bas relief on one side and the word faith imprinted in the other.

I stroke it with my thumb sometimes.

In a world where tv preachers say way too much, and bar hopping young adults drink way too much, and meth using crazies infect babies with nothingness, how in God's name can I be offended by the presence of the cross. Not me. They might not help anyone else, but they help me.