I read this article a few weeks ago and filed it away to mention here, so if you’ve seen this already it is probably because the story is a little old, but pertinent here none-the-less. According to the article found here, on Gizmodo.com :

“One man drove 12,238 miles and across 30 states in the U.S. to scrawl a message that could only be viewed using Google Earth. His big shoutout: ‘Read Ayn Rand.’”

I find the actions of this man both inspiring and a bit disappointing. Here we have a guy who is willing to spend a month of his life driving back and forth around the country to write a message to, and on the world to read Ayn Rand because he believes the world would be a better place if it took her ideas to heart. That sort of dedication to a cause is truly inspiring to me, though I can’t help but be amazed by the subject of the grand jesture. I have indeed read Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” was assigned as a summer reading book and while I enjoyed it (in spite of the sections where it droned on at no end about certain aspects of achitecture), it did not change my life nor can I imagine it making the world a better place.

What I find in this article to be disappointing is the very thing that inspires me. This man has such great devotion and faith in a fiction author and the ability of her words to change the world that he dedicated a month of his life, not to mention how ever much gas was spent driving back and forth across the country, to encourage people to read her books. I can’t help but wonder how many Christians would have the same sense of faith and devotion to One who saved their soul.

If you could write a message to and on the world for all mankind to see, would you write something worth reading?