Sunday, May 29, 2011

Toe Jam Jesus


So, I was giving a talk to a group of parents. The topic: Reconciliation. And the Biblical story was that of the lady who was a sinner and used her tears to wash the feet of Jesus.
It's very cool, has a nice feeling of repentance and over all a feel good story.
So then I decided that the parents need to really understand scripture so I broke it down for them.
And it goes a little something like this:

One day Jesus was eating at this tax collectors house (he is scum due to his profession). There was a hooker there too. (I guess prostitute is more dignified but hey really, dignity comes into play here)? So the hooker realzizes that Jesus is the Lord (Messiah/Savior) and has a change of heart (metanoia). So she takes her perfumes and with her tears washes Jesus feet, dries them with her hair and pour oil over them.
But wait... there is more.

Judas gets his tunic all wadded up and says: Lord, she wasting the oil, it could have been sold and the money given to the poor (read self-righteously).
Of course Jesus lauds the woman's actions and tells Judas to unwad his undergarments.

I have taken literary liscense with the above story, but you get the idea.
So during the talk, I mentioned that what this woman did was incredible since Jesus had dirty, smelly feet. In fact he may have even had toe jam.
Imagine: Jesus with Toe jam. Wow, Toe Jam Jesus.

Needless to say, there were individuals in the audience who were okay with hooker but not with Jesus having toe jam. Well I gotta say that since Jesus is true God and true man as professed in the Creed... he probably had toe jam. But thanks to the repentant woman, he got it all cleared out.

So, when you have toe jam, be like Jesus, go eat at some sinner's house and hopefully they will wash your feet.

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