Wednesday, May 10, 2006

T-Shirts

The Body Shop has a history of putting thought provoking warm-and-fuzzy quotes on our T-shirts for work. These have ranged from the almost heretical (for me - which is a challenge in itself to wear), to downright cheezy ("Beauty is about action, vivaciousness, courage, energy and compassion - all the things that people should be cellebrated for" - Anita Roddick [almost sounds like an add for the most recent Hillsong womens conference]). They're getting closer to Christianity, which is exciting, and each time a new T-shirt comes out is the opportunity to talk about it (though often the quote is overlooked to whinge about the colour/rediculous sizing/odd v-neck/disproportionate shoulders & sleves etc...

Yes, so we've come from Ghandi's "Be the change you wish to see in the world", a few random ones "Bad things happen when good people do nothing", the Dalai Lama's "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive", [its a painfully pluralistic company/world] to an Einstein quote previously "Learn from yesterday, Live for today, Hope for tomorrow" - which got a fair few comments from customers/random strangers in the supermarket staring at/reading my chest (often disturbing).

Anyway... I had a point somewhere, where was it?
New T-Shirt day is tomorrow
Our winter shirt is bright pink (others are hoping it will fade), and has an Archbishop Desmond Tutu quote...
"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world"
its kinda nice - I'm happy to be wearing it on my back (better people reading that than my front) - not quite as good as "Jesus Christ is Lord" for proclaiming the Gospel, or starting conversations, but its a challenge. Each T-shirt we get, I try and think of ways of turning peoples comments of 'nice shirt' into a discussion/proclamation of truth, that may have eternal consequences. And I figured if any readers out there wanted to makes some sugguestions of where I could go with this. I've had a few thoughts, possibly about what true goodness is? What, (as Christians) we ought to overwhelm the world with? Where does goodness come from? I put the question out there, how can I, wearing this T-shirt effectively use it to proclaim Jesus as Lord?

I wonder if I'll ever be given a shirt with something that Jesus said on the back to wear for work?

1 comment:

soniatherese said...

Hey Katie,
That's heaps funny cos at last GC in girl time we looked at goodness. =) Titus something.