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Friday, June 12, 2026
After a visit to someone’s home this past Thursday, Shelley wanted to stop by a nearby Hobby Lobby, so that’s what we did. Shelley was laser-focused on graduation cards and a VBS prop, but normally “Hob Lob” contains little to hold my personal gaze. Yet I wandered in behind her.
Turning a corner I found myself transfixed by the sight you see above. Hob Lob’s aisles are very long, and this one – from one end to the other – contained an astounding array of hats. They subdivided themselves into two basic categories, cowboy and baseball, and I found myself wondering what all this variegated headgear could possibly have to do with either hobbies or lobbies.
Well, Hob Lob has evidently discovered that they sell well, so there they were. And three seconds after I spotted them, my mental Daily Photo Parable machinery kicked into gear. “We all wear lots of hats, don’t we?” I mused. Some of us wear work hats (which don’t seem to be well represented here). Others wear hats which announce civil authority, such as those worn by the police. Still others wear hiker’s hats, which repel sun and rain as needed. And of course sports fans most likely wear what announces and honors their favorite teams.
What hat – metaphorically – are you wearing at the moment? Is your personality an attention-loving one, or would you rather be self-effacing enough so people won’t pay you much mind? Is your “hat” one you’d feel comfortable wearing both to work and to church?
The Bible has a few pieces of advice about our appearance, and I found it helpful to check them out. Click the link just below: