CARS THAT DON’T MOVE—what is their purpose?
Cars that don’t move become symbols. Or cars that only move in dreams.
When you go to a car museum you are looking at something which was used as a vehicle, now purely as a symbol.
I’ve left cars all over the world. They become symbols. They highlight the symbolic.
I left a car in Sheffield. I left one in Antwerp. I left one or two in Austin. There is one in Mexico, if that phone call was correct.
I’ve driven them all over the place, but then they retire into pure symbol.
I wish, like Elvis I had a garage big enough for them all. Maybe my funeral in heaven, they will all be gathered so I can take a spin and consider them.
I like the metaphor of vehicles. Of course, i also give them away, as I did my Kharma Ghia in California. It’s still active, as is my 69 Volvo—somewhere.
Others literally are just sitting. They are the cars that don’t move, aside from in dreams.
In the second half of life we get to complete and interpret the symbols we discovered and started to make in the first half of life. We get to complete our symbols. And interpret them for others. We want to complete our symbols so others can see more whole statements of life.
That’s why we want to walk out the second half well. So others can hear and see the whole testimony of what God can do in a person’s life.
We start to desire less, new places and things and people, and more to tend well the one’s we have. To make fine wine.
We want to complete our symbols which we fought to find when young. Now we found them, know them, so we can better articulate and edit them into a clear expression which is more useful to others.
You see this in artist who age well. They refine the symbols they started in youth. They tend and steward the symbolic aspect of their lives to make a more whole expression.
Jesus completed His symbols. Jesus was in fact a completion of all the OT symbols. We also have this desire to complete our symbols.
When we leave the earth, we want to leave intact symbols to bless and model to others. A life completed. A testimony well told. Something with a beginning middle and end. That’s a motivation to finish well. So that His Whole story can be told through our lives.
A car un-abandoned, can become a symbol of the whole story.