Friday, January 3, 2014

Spears Into Pruning Hooks

"This Nativity is made from brass bullet casings. Each casing is cut open and pounded flat, designed, then cleaned with solvents and polished with sand. The Nativity was created by a young man named Calvin Faylah in Monrovia, Liberia. ... The casings were collected from streets and villages throughout Liberia as a leftover remnant of the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars (1989-2003)."

When I saw this Nativity, I thought of Isaiah's words about war and peace. 

 "...  and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Isaiah 4:2


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plowshare - the main cutting blade of a plow

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