AFI FEILD TRIP

The AFI field trip was one of the most impacting and influential place that I have ever been. This field trip also brought the reading “The boys next door” to life for me. Anytime I would look at each client there I would think about the different characters of the reading. There was one lady at AFI that knew everyone by name but had some form of speech impediment as she would point out everyone and stated their name, she kept saying how everyone there is her friend and that reminded me with the character Lucien. The reading that I felt was best for this outing was the essay by Steven Fettke. The word that was burned into my brain and heart as I looked at all the mentally and physically challenged people was “imago Dei” which was in the essay. Fettke posed a challenging question “Does imago dei mean the same thing for all of God’s creation”. This challenging theological question would be in my mind during this whole time of this visit. At each glance I took at every client I asked myself why God would create some in what society would deem as a “normal image” and why would he create others in an abnormal image. Is the imago dei just for “normal” people, if so then why, if not then what does the imago dei really mean for all people? I believe all creation is made in the image of God but sin has corrupted the physical and spiritual man. Who is really normal with the effect of sin on all man, what is the standard of normality, are you who are reading this normal? There is no such thing as normal but there was One man who came for all of us who were deemed as abnormal because of sin, and he was not just normal but perfect and because of Him we are all normal in the eyes of God