Today’s post features one of my early word art pieces: WWJD.
My inspiration for this piece isn’t really very clever. I just enjoyed remembering the 1990s – my daughter’s preschool years – and the thought of the bracelets the kids got at VBS.
Recently, I got curious about the origin of the question WWJD and the bracelets that these initials were put on. I found this at Wikipedia:
“Charles Spurgeon, a well-known evangelical preacher in London, used the phrase ‘what would Jesus do’ in quotation marks several times in a sermon he gave on June 28, 1891.[2] In his sermon he cites the source of the phrase as a book written in Latin by Thomas à Kempis between 1418 and 1427, Imitatio Christi (The Imitation of Christ). It is possible that Sheldon was familiar with either Spurgeon or Thomas, or that he was independently inspired…A youth group leader in Holland, Michigan, named Janie Tinklenberg, began a grassroots movement to help the teenagers in her group remember the phrase; it spread nationwide in the 1990s among Christian youth, who wore bracelets bearing the initials W.W. J. D.”
Interesting!
All that leads to the question…When was the last time that you asked yourself the question, “What would Jesus do?”