shemp
a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
Too early this morning, I heard a car start up. I peeked out the window. The family across the street was going off to Easter sunrise service.
What a pretty picture. The kids dressed up in their Easter finest. I bet they were just thrilled to be dragged out of bed at 4:30 a.m. and thrown into stiff, starched clothes. And the wife looked so happy to be going off to celebrate Jesus' resurrection. I wonder if she was out fooling around last night; the scuttlebutt around town is that she's having an affair, and the marriage is falling apart.
Well, that's not the point of this. For some unknown reason, I thought about the collection plate in church, and I wondered if this was symbolic of Jesus' life too. Because Jesus was an unemployed bum! He gave up a career in carpentry to wander the streets and live off donations. When I think of him and his disciples going from town to town, it seems to me like a traveling medicine show. Jesus and his disciples would roll into town, set up shop, do a few magic tricks, preach a little gospel, and sell a couple bottles of "Dr. Good."
These unemployed bums lived off money they scammed from poor hopeless unfortunates! The people should have turned their backs on them, and they would have either had to go back to work or starve in the desert!
Jesus, get a job, you bum!
What a pretty picture. The kids dressed up in their Easter finest. I bet they were just thrilled to be dragged out of bed at 4:30 a.m. and thrown into stiff, starched clothes. And the wife looked so happy to be going off to celebrate Jesus' resurrection. I wonder if she was out fooling around last night; the scuttlebutt around town is that she's having an affair, and the marriage is falling apart.
Well, that's not the point of this. For some unknown reason, I thought about the collection plate in church, and I wondered if this was symbolic of Jesus' life too. Because Jesus was an unemployed bum! He gave up a career in carpentry to wander the streets and live off donations. When I think of him and his disciples going from town to town, it seems to me like a traveling medicine show. Jesus and his disciples would roll into town, set up shop, do a few magic tricks, preach a little gospel, and sell a couple bottles of "Dr. Good."
These unemployed bums lived off money they scammed from poor hopeless unfortunates! The people should have turned their backs on them, and they would have either had to go back to work or starve in the desert!
Jesus, get a job, you bum!
