A Thousand Words

Funny how little things stick with you. When I was in the third grade, a photographer came to our school and took pictures of us. When the individual billfold-size shots came, on the little package in blue letters, I remember seeing, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” That was my first exposure to the well-known expression.

Today we say these emblems “speak to us”; they’re “worth a thousand words.” They’re a visual message that brings back what took place real-ly so long ago. Grape juice and unleavened bread portray to our mind’s eye the shed blood and given body that says, “I care about you this much.”

Together let’s see what the pictures say so concisely, so vividly, so significantly.