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Jul. 31st, 2006 12:23 amI was just thinking... dangerous, I know. *insert Beauty and the Beast parody montage here*
What if Green Eggs and Ham is an allegory for God and man? Sam I Am is God, chasing us down, with his strange message of Grace and Redemption, and we keep saying no thanks, I don't like Green Eggs and Ham. We cannot grasp it, it looks weird and anyways we are doing just fine without them. But God, because He loves us and He knows that we really would like what He has to offer, keeps giving us chances to try them. He pursues us to the ends of the Earth... sending us the chance over and over. Even in a box with a fox, even with His Son on the Cross... And in the end we find out that we like them after all.
As Dr. Suess and the Psalm say
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
What if Green Eggs and Ham is an allegory for God and man? Sam I Am is God, chasing us down, with his strange message of Grace and Redemption, and we keep saying no thanks, I don't like Green Eggs and Ham. We cannot grasp it, it looks weird and anyways we are doing just fine without them. But God, because He loves us and He knows that we really would like what He has to offer, keeps giving us chances to try them. He pursues us to the ends of the Earth... sending us the chance over and over. Even in a box with a fox, even with His Son on the Cross... And in the end we find out that we like them after all.
As Dr. Suess and the Psalm say
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
