Salty

Well this has been a pretty crazy week! We had avalanche, the winter Junior High Retret, the weekend before last, and we have Blizzard, the senior high retreat, coming up this weekend! I'm pretty pumped for Blizzard since Avalanche was so awesome.

The speaker at Avalanche had some pretty cool things to say. His name was Mike, and he was a really cool guy. His first talk was actually pretty deep. He was talking about putting things that hold us back from God behind us and moving on.

He used the example of a "Covenant of Salt." Now, I've never actually known what this meant, and I don't know if his answer (or my interpretation of his answer) is correct, but it was kind of a cool idea. Salt to us now a days, is just a condiment. We have it on our Kitchen tables. A major part of salt is that it brings out flavour, so that's kind of cool.

How to the Ancient Near East, salt was a lot more. Salt meant a lot to them. This is seen in their "covenant of salt." You see, in a covenant of salt, you would take some salt, and put it in water. Pretty simple, nothing too fancy.

But the whole idea behind it is, that a covenant isn't just words. You take salt, and put it in water. Salt isn't just words, and when you put it in water, it transforms and spreads through out the water until it is uniform. Salt is something tangible that you take in your hand. It represents the covenant, and makes it more than just words. It kind of brings a whole new meaning for the phrase "the salt of the earth." We, the Church, are representative of God's covenant. We make it tangible.