Thursday, March 05, 2009

Interesting Generational Coincidences

Today I came home to an excited wife. From what I gathered, Audrey had made me something. Now, Audrey is very creative, and has a tendency to make me things A LOT. I've been given special sticks, rocks, dead plants, broken pieces of plastic, dirty pine cones, and personal art work drawn on every possible marked surface you can think of. Today it was a pen drawing on paper. However, this drawing had significance. It was a drawing of Jesus's crucifixion and the world shaking and sad. Here is a photo:


Now, normally, I would have been proud of her grasp of knowledge of the Passion story and moved along without a second thought. However, this photo was familiar to me. Back in high school, I had drawn a lot in study halls and such. One particular picture I drew was a favorite, since I had drawn it shortly after my conversion. The only other person in my life that knew about this picture was Meg, who was just as excited when she realized it. Below is a photo of that picture I drew back in high school:


What is even more interesting is that Audrey had never in her life seen the picture that I had drawn, yet she conceptually drew a very similar expression of the crucifixion. What do you guys think? Coincidence? Holy Spirit?