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The following are two examples of mirror ambigrams...you read them straight on they say one thing, but when you look at them in the mirror they say something else to share a message.  (To make it easy on you...so you don't have to take your computer monitor into the bathroom to look in the mirror, just put your mouse over the image to see it flip.)

 

The Passion...Christ's death, burial and resurrection.  

Suggested Bible passages to use with this presentation:  Luke:23-24

 

 © 2001 Nathan Dorrell 

This ambigram says "Christ" straight on, and "Risen" in the mirror.  This presentation is self-explanatory.  You can use it to tell the story of Christ's death on the cross first.  That while he was on the cross, people made fun of him and said, "If you really are Christ, come down off the cross and save yourself."  But that wasn't Jesus' plan, to save himself.  So he hung there and died.  They laid his body in a garden tomb and rolled a stone over the entrance and sealed it.  On Sunday morning after that Friday when he died, some women came to the tomb hoping to pour spices on his body wondering how they would get into the tomb.  When they got there...the stone was rolled away.  An angel told them, why are you looking for Jesus the Christ among the dead, he is not here for he is "RISEN" just as he said!  (as you say this, flip the overhead transparency over so the drawing is now face down on the overhead...it will show the word "RISEN".  For now, you can see the reflection by moving your mouse over the picture if you have a PC.)  You see he didn't have to prove that he was the Christ by coming off the cross and saving himself!  His purpose was to save the entire world...all who will believe in him!  He is alive!  He is risen!

 

If you want to use a mirrored ambigram in a presentation:  There are at least four ways to allow the whole audience to see the reflected image: 1. Draw it on thin paper (regular paper is thin enough) with a dark marker, then show the back of the page.  2. Have it drawn on an overhead transparency, then flip the overhead transparency upside down on the overhead to reveal the mirrored image.  3.  Do this with paint...make sure it's all still wet, take another paper the same size that is blank and press it on top of the paper...it will transfer the reverse image to the page for you to show.  3. Use a mirror or more than one and pass them around so the audience can look at the image.

Other ambigram locations on our site: upside down messages, Spanish ambigram messages, just for fun, water to wine, woman at the well (a picture puzzle that flips upside down), our ambigram book

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