Remember

Factual Questions
1

I’m sure most of you have been driving down the road, minding your own buissness, when suddenly, there’s a car in front of you. And right there, pasted on the back of the car, is the word “REMEMBER” over a piece of wheat or something. No one I have talked to knows what this means, and it’s beginning to bug me. I don’t know, maybe I’m supposed to remember that I left the iron on?? Please, if anyone can help me with this, email me at Zoey0685@aol.com, because I rarely have anytime to do anything but check my mail. Thanks so much!

2

Well, since I have absolutely no clue, I’m going to put “remember wheat” into Google and see what comes up.

Hmm. 179,000 hits.

Are you supposed to:

A. Remember Wheat Ridge Ministries in your will?

B. Remember Mama’s recipe for Wheat Casserole?

C. Remember the Fly-Free dates when planting wheat this fall?

3

Alternatively, what part of the country are you from? I do not recall ever seeing any similar bumper sticker (or otherwise affixable sign)–I drive mostly in Ohio or Michigan.

Could the “wheat” be a feather? Some other object?

What colors are used? Is it bumper-sticker sized?

4

Thinking of the “feather” angle: before the United Way swallowed up all the other similar groups, one of the local charity collection associations was known as the Red Feather. Has the local United Way in your region hung on to some of the older Red Feather imagery (for continuity) and included that in some of their advertising?

Remember + feather = Remember to support your local charity (?)

And if your area is a specific farming region, the “wheat” might be some other grain crop that won’t show up on google by using “wheat.”

5

The sticker is usually in the back window of the car, and I’ve also seen it in store windows. I’m from Georgia, which may have something to do with it. A friend of mine suggestd that it might have religious symbolism, but couldn’t tell me what that symbolism was.

6

The communion wafer is made of wheat and the command of Jesus at the Last Supper:

Luke 22:18-20 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

1 Corinthians 11:23-25 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

7

Oh. Okay. The secret word is “Christian”. I’ve never seen the bumper sticker in question, but three much better associations of “remember” and “wheat” pop into my head.

8

So, looking at the three of them now, my guess would be that it’s probably #3, very specifically meaning “Jesus” as the grain of wheat. “Remember Jesus”.

The others would be too general–“wheat good, weeds bad”, “wheat good, chaff bad”.