Bush Stadium Seat Salvage
There has been so much going on between work, learning new technology, the pain in my hip (that is now miraculously gone!), cooking all the time, and cleaning up after the cooking (that’s the harder part), that I am tired. My brain and eyes are more tired than my body. Maybe you have been experiencing some of this as well? Today I took my Walk of Hope to help with that brain drain.
Following the Cultural Trail once again, I came upon this relaxing installation, pictured here, not far from my apartment building. The sign says: “Bush Stadium Seat Salvage”. The seats are a remnant from Indianapolis’ former minor league baseball stadium, one replaced by a gorgeous new downtown stadium a number of years back. What could have been trash are now a hopeful sign of re-purposing and rest along the Trail.
As I sat in one of these seats, my thoughts turned to “The Beverly Hillbillies” TV show and its closing theme lyrics: "Set a spell, Take your shoes off. Y'all come back now, y'hear?“ It feels good to ‘set a spell,’ to feel the hope these chairs convey: that our lives, though always changing and being re-purposed, do have significance! We are important to God!
It is also so good to just 'set a spell’. Have you been doing that much? Just being? Just sitting there? Not being productive (which I think is overrated)? Not being busy (also overrated)? Just being? These chairs provide that on a downtown street that usually is teeming with traffic.
In Matthew 11:28, Jesus calls us to rest: "Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.” In that rest we regain hope. It brings hope into our lives!
Matthew 10:29-31 says: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows” Just as these chairs are important, even so, we are more important to many people, and to God. And now that brings real hope!
