you can’t have just one? Can you?

SO I found an article by American Sociologist D. A. Vail his academic paper about tattoos and the tattoo culture is called Tattoos are like potato chips ... you can’t have just one. In his article he talks about becoming a "collector".  He explains it as  tattoo jargon describing a person who is heavily tattooed; and  amassing heavy bodily coverage with tattoos and this is known as ‘‘building a collection.’’ he says it is similar to how art historians to try to collect original pieces so do people with tattoos. He continues to explain how transformative tattooing is; not only physical but is tied to stories and experiences the individual has gone through.

• On March 27 2010 at a local shop in Albemarle NC I got my first tattoo. In English it reads as "Some play at friendship, but the true friend sticks closer then the nearest kin" Proverbs 18:24.  I got it on my left forearm in Hebrew, because I to have the original langue that it was written in... 
• for me it is my testimony of my faith and who I am. This verse has always stuck out to me growing up in the church, when my friends and their families took me in one of there own. Not only letting me live with them but loved me. My Tattoo has become a celebration of life that family isnt always your blood relatives or the ones that share the same last name but the one who love you no matter what. 
• My Tattoo in a way represents how I do ministry, and its affects my Pedagogy of style, Theology and feel like this is the most important theological task we can do (I'll write about it someday). 

anyways to get to the point of this post, I've been thinking/debating about getting another tattoo for awhile now and secretly I've always found the tattoo culture fascinating. I dont think I could ever become a 'collector' as D.A. Vail describes in his paper but I feel kinda drawn to more and more to them maybe because there seems to be hundreds of thousand who have tattoos and dozens of websites, and several successful television show dedicated to showing off their artwork on their bodies. Which some are more ridiculous then others (Tat 1 Tat 2).

but they all seem to have some sort of story tying them to the owner, and that's what I love. Knowing why the person got the tattoo (ie meaning/background); and in many cases they describe the image and/or phrase as  a turning point in their life and typically is someone/something that has help to make that change possible. Right now I know im at that point in life where monumental change is happening, Im growing in my faith, maturity and understanding of God's calling on my life because of this I became an missionary. The saying  "BE WITH" during training was an invitation to change our understanding of what Justice really is. Being With and Justice work is being present, loving, struggling and working together to fix injustice. working at removing systems of oppression. even though i'm terrified of needles (which I almost pasted out twice during my first one). I know that Justice will always be apart of who I am how I live out my faith, Pfeiffer and YAMs has helped me realize this; and if/when I get a new tattoo justice will be the motivation behind getting it. I have some ideas but who knows.... any ideas would be much appreciated.

• I've been looking for a new testament verse about Justice 
• thinking about getting it in Koine Greek  
•  if you know any good one please let me know in the comments below
• OR even a symbol that represents Justice
• maybe something from the Orthodox tradition or ancient world