When you mine for metaphors, make sure to dig into them deeply, so that what you say is not just a matter of tradition or worse, cliché. You must not imagine that those before you have found out everything to be found, although it’s helpful to know what they...
Metaphors are all around us. In our current culture, we think in metaphors, we dream in metaphors, we imagine in metaphors. Psychologists now know that if we want to change, we need to change our current metaphors and put others in their place. Do you feel in your...
Connecting metaphors is sort of like weaving on a loom. You need to make sure to connect your source strand with the new peg in order to create an image that speaks to people in their own context. For example, we can’t read the story of the “Good Samaritan”...
The tongue is a frequent hidden metaphor in scripture indicating an issue known in Judaism as lashon hara, that is, telling evil about another (or gossiping if you will). We might say in our culture, it means, “talking trash” on someone. In the story of Esther, Homan...
The metaphor of wind continues throughout Pentecost….. but this is not just breath but can also be “chaos.” The idea of the storm, the squall, the perfect storm, unfathomable gusts, noise, and indistinguishable language sums up our experience of God, whom we can’t...
The scriptures have many, many references to locusts. You can be sure, they have multiple meanings. Metaphors are contextual. Sometimes, a metaphor can mean one thing in one context, and in another context, something entirely different. This is why one cannot simply...
