Taking Silly String Seriously

While preparing for a new series of messages on the book of Philippians, I was googling images that might represent some of my thoughts. My research was not intended to help with presentation graphics (we have such a great creative arts team that I wouldn't even try). For me images often help me grasp abstract concepts.

Since the theme of Philippians is joy and Paul writes about it from prison, I wanted to get an image that was serious about life but having a whole lot of fun at the same time. Words like "joy," "silly," "fun," and "laugh" seemed to be the best to google. Then, I decided to search the two extreme words of "serious" and "silly" - just to see what would happen. Well, the photo above was the result of a google image search. A little research revealed that this is an Los Angeles Municipal Code for Hollywood. 

Obviously Los Angeles takes the Halloween usage of Silly String very seriously! Maybe this image will make a good illustration at some point in our study!