Monday, June 02, 2008
Ponderings on Christianity
Was Jesus a Type-A person? Was He one of those people who always has His ducks in a row, shirt tucked in, house tidied up? I think not. The recollection I have, not being a biblical scholar in any sense, is of a person who never planned anything but just miraculously (literally, perhaps?) timed everything right and always showed up on cue.
This topic may seem random or irrelevant, but in fact has been recurring in my life recently.
I was pondering a business that I used to deal with at my old job, our IT consultant. He was a nice guy who'd thoughtfully dedicated his consulting business to Christ by naming it "For Him Consulting". Sure, why not? But it seems a little odd to me to pair up IT consulting with the ancient sandal-clad pre hippie.
On the other hand, there's a business on the outskirts of Houston that I drive past whenever we go to the beach. It's got a huge faded blue totem out front on the side of the freeway that proudly proclaims, "HIS Soils" and then subtitled "Landscaping Technologies". Underneath, it looks like it used to read, "JESUS IS LOVE." That one seems dead-on to me. If Jesus came back today, I could totally imagine him working in a landscaping business. Organic compost, drought-resistant ground covers, ladybugs instead of pesticides, etc. Not so much the Color Spot stuff, like super-bright petunias and gigantic roses that only bloom the year you plant them.
Or-- and this makes me think I might have possible slept through the second coming-- what about Bob Ross? There was something definitely other-worldly about that guy. And his show was captivating, yet somehow devoid of any real content. A little lacking in message, but he had the hair and the voice for sure. Alas, the old mystic has returned to His father, like the one before Him.
¶ 9:19 PM 
This topic may seem random or irrelevant, but in fact has been recurring in my life recently.
I was pondering a business that I used to deal with at my old job, our IT consultant. He was a nice guy who'd thoughtfully dedicated his consulting business to Christ by naming it "For Him Consulting". Sure, why not? But it seems a little odd to me to pair up IT consulting with the ancient sandal-clad pre hippie.
On the other hand, there's a business on the outskirts of Houston that I drive past whenever we go to the beach. It's got a huge faded blue totem out front on the side of the freeway that proudly proclaims, "HIS Soils" and then subtitled "Landscaping Technologies". Underneath, it looks like it used to read, "JESUS IS LOVE." That one seems dead-on to me. If Jesus came back today, I could totally imagine him working in a landscaping business. Organic compost, drought-resistant ground covers, ladybugs instead of pesticides, etc. Not so much the Color Spot stuff, like super-bright petunias and gigantic roses that only bloom the year you plant them.
Or-- and this makes me think I might have possible slept through the second coming-- what about Bob Ross? There was something definitely other-worldly about that guy. And his show was captivating, yet somehow devoid of any real content. A little lacking in message, but he had the hair and the voice for sure. Alas, the old mystic has returned to His father, like the one before Him.
¶ 9:19 PM
