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In John Steinbeck's story of The Wayward Bus, a dilapidated old bus (dubbed "Sweetheart") takes a crosscountry shortcut on its journey from Rebel Corners to Los Angeles and gets stuck in the mud. While the driver goes for assistance, the passengers take refuge in a cave.
They form a curious company. There is a girl who danced at stag parties, a traveling salesman strictly out for laughs, a boy named Pimple who is girl-crazy, and a shallow-principled businessman with his repressed wife and free-thinking daughter. It appears clear that these characters are "lost" spiritually as well a physically.
The cave in which they take refuge has one word written over it in black paint: "REPENT!" A wandering preacher had gone to a lot of trouble to paint the word there as his way of "spreading God's word in a sinful world." The only one to notice the word, however, is the businessman who simply wonders who had financed such a venture.
Does anyone today know what it means to repent? Does anyone care? Is anyone interested in undergoing a complete interior change of heart, a renewal of spirit, and the adoption of a whole new outlook and attitude?
-- Randolph
In John Steinbeck's story of The Wayward Bus, a dilapidated old bus (dubbed "Sweetheart") takes a crosscountry shortcut on its journey from Rebel Corners to Los Angeles and gets stuck in the mud. While the driver goes for assistance, the passengers take refuge in a cave.
They form a curious company. There is a girl who danced at stag parties, a traveling salesman strictly out for laughs, a boy named Pimple who is girl-crazy, and a shallow-principled businessman with his repressed wife and free-thinking daughter. It appears clear that these characters are "lost" spiritually as well a physically.
The cave in which they take refuge has one word written over it in black paint: "REPENT!" A wandering preacher had gone to a lot of trouble to paint the word there as his way of "spreading God's word in a sinful world." The only one to notice the word, however, is the businessman who simply wonders who had financed such a venture.
Does anyone today know what it means to repent? Does anyone care? Is anyone interested in undergoing a complete interior change of heart, a renewal of spirit, and the adoption of a whole new outlook and attitude?
-- Randolph
