It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more
from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and
crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal
statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...
I can not even remember how many times I have heard
from my clients
statements like: «she makes me mad», «he drives me
crazy», «if he / she only did this or that I would be so happy», «he / she makes me miserable».
In other
crazy Jackson news, the executors of Michael Jackson's estate have released a
statement confirming that Janet Jackson and Paris Jackson fought over the teenager's mobile phone yesterday, with Janet trying to wrestle it
from her niece.