What do you stand for?

Driving around Salem this afternoon I saw a bumper sticker that said,

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." Mother Theresa

I couldn't help but notice the hand grenade proudly displayed on the rear window, just above the sticker.

I made me wonder...

What do they stand for?

Life

or 

Death?

Maybe the Grenade sticker is representing the Grenade Glove Co 

or 

Green Day's Album. ( I can't remember the title off hand.)

Who knows...?  

But on first glance it seems to simply represent someone who is conflicted.

It made me think more about polarized situations in life.

There are a lot. 

Life isn't as Black & White as we would sometimes like it to be.

Most of life is lived in areas of gray.

However, I don't know how a person can be for both life and death at least not in the way that this Isuzu seems to be.

Wouldn't you always feel conflicted?

I have been conflicted before.

I have felt torn between 2 rights.

I have even felt torn between a right and a wrong.

But I would never post my confliction on the back of my car for the world to see.

I would rather struggle internally with whatever I am conflicted about.

I guess I am simply not a bumpersticker kind of gal.

I don't feel compelled to display my allegiance, whatever that might be, on my vehicle.

Those that know me know my beliefs, 

know my heart, 

but I don't particularly want to share with every one that I pass by on the street.

I guess this is because I don't like conflict.

In fact, most of the time I strive to avoid conflict.

I have taken up causes before.

I won't hesitate to champion for those in need.

But I see that differently than bumper stickers on my car.

Confronting or challenging others on behalf of those less fortunate feels different to me than sticking a sticker on my car.  To stand up in solidarity with those in need is something I generally won't shy away from regardless of the conflict required.

Maybe that is what Mr Isuzu is doing...

Championing for the causes he believes in.

For a short time,

I will continue to wonder what he stands for.