Cool Story
Okay...here are the instructions: Go to Mike Riddell's site (Mike...not Mark...it's not a typo), click on the Spirituality link, then scroll down to the articles. Click on the article called Jesus At the Diner. Or...if you want to skip Mike's site, you can just go here.

Here's the intro to catch your attention:

This is a true story. Absolutely true in every respect. It just hasn't happened yet. All stories are true if you wait long enough. Someone once asked Mao-Tse-Tung if he thought the French Revolution was a success. He replied that it was too early to tell. At that stage the world cup still hadn't been played.

Anyway, back to the story. This is all about what happened the day that Jesus came back. Of course everyone had been hanging about waiting for Jesus for centuries and centuries. After a while people just gave up and got on with their lives, you know what I mean. Nobody wanted to admit that they'd been stood up, but there's only so long that you can stand on the corner twiddling your thumbs.

The followers of Jesus had been forced to go ahead without him. And to tell the truth, they hadn't made a bad fist of things. They'd got buildings and land and money and power; all the things in fact that Jesus hadn't quite managed in his own short period of ministry. There were universities and political parties and tourist operators and even television stations operating in his name. The church had developed rule books and rituals and all manner of fancy costumes for itself.

So it was a bit of a surprise that when Jesus finally chose to return from the longest holiday in history, that he should come back in the way he did. You might have thought he would have turned up at the Vatican or Lambeth Palace or even Graceland. But no, of all the holy and revered sites on the planet, Jesus had to pick Al's Greasy Diner to show up at...



posted by Jimmy at 8:24 AM | |