I was driving to my first stop the other day, when I look up and see what appears to be the letters L O V, spelled out in the sky. Once the E in love was finished It became apparent to me what was going on. So I watched periodically, as not to crash, as the U took shape and thinking to myself that I was about to witness a marriage proposal or a anniversary gift of some sort, so when the J starts to take shape I imagine Jill, Jessie, Jen, ect. So I was taken a back to see JESUS spelled out. LOVE U JESUS, writing across the sky in a primarily residential neighborhood on a Monday morning around 9 am. What you are about to read will be slightly different from my normal post as I intend to hop directly on my soapbox. This message seemed to be one of the grossest waste of a churches or christian individuals money I have ever seen. I did the research, the minimum buy in for skywriting in that area is about $2000. 2 G's not to tell people that Jesus loves them, but that you have a special spot for the big guy. I don't know if the wrote it in that manner hoping he would see it, but it is a very strange thing to write. Also consider that on a good day in good conditions it will remain legible for 10 to 20 minutes at most, it was what the weather man would call a partly cloudy day, the population density in this area isn't that high, and most of it is either in school or at work. My best estimate puts it at 5 to 10 thousand people may have glimpsed this while legible. 2 grand. To put that is slightly better perspective consider this, the average Walmart Supercenter gets between 5 and 8 thousand people through the doors a day. If you paid a homeless man to hand out fliers with a short message and to say God Bless you I think it's completely possible to hit 2500 people on a 8 hour shift during peek hours. If you paid him 10 dollars an hour, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, you could have him in from of a Walmart for 5 weeks. That gives him a punchers chance of seeing around 60 thousand people. Oh and you employ a person for more than a month. If that seems a waste you could sponsor 4.8 children for a entire year, food, shelter and a education for almost 5 underprivileged children. I could do about 5 more examples like this, but I think that's enough to make my point. I'm sure someone somewhere thought this would be a clever way to draw attention to Christianity, but what kind of attention? When it comes to a faith like Christianity the colloquialism of "All press is good press" in no way applies.

Ok, I will try not to write something like this for awhile. However, this just seemed so absurd. I have thought about it from the other side as well, and I understand the justifications for something like this, but I still think if you break it down to the core of the what they decided to write and the money spent (even if the guy who owned the plain did it of his own volition) it just seems like something the government would do, not the church.

One last thing, if there is a Hispanic man that looked up at aproximately 9am Monday morning and knew someone was wishing him well, then I am completely out of line and I apologize.