McGan's Meditations
Michael McGan, the author of Fleeting
Thoughts and The
Hamster Never Sleeps, is not one to shy away from the more
controversial questions and this time is no exception… .
Thoughts on God and Stuff…
Does
God have a beard? In paintings, He always has a beard. But
that is because in biblical times, everyone had beards. You
look at a painting of a shepherd with some goats, the shepherd
has a beard, the goats have beards... everybody has a beard.
It's even quite possible that the women back then had beards
as well, they just covered them up with veils. Granted, these
are just artists' conceptions of what God looks like. I would
bet that the artists had beards. We really don’t know for
certain, and many of you could care less, but I'm kind of
curious.
I
don't know much about the style of sandals that were worn
two thousand years ago. What if they were like the "flip-flops"
we wear to the beach. Jesus walks by, flip-flop flip-flop.
His followers hear Jesus going by and run to catch up,
flip-flop flip-flop flip-flop... He's trying to speak
to everyone, but nobody can hear what's being said, flip-flop
flip-flop... a thousand times over. Just a deafening
roar of flip-flops.
"I hope somebody writes all that down because I couldn't
hear a word He said."
"Look! He's moving on! Let's go!"
Flip-flop flip-flop...
There comes a time during the mass or service of most Christian
denominations, where you receive communion. At this point,
you rise and head for the altar. Many times, I'd be chewing
gum. So I'd swallow it because you are about to put a wafer
of bread in your mouth that is symbolic of the bread broken
at The Last Supper. The priest hands me the wafer and says,
"The body of Christ." I put it in my mouth and swallow
it. Now I'm thinking "Right now, in my stomach, I have
the body of Christ mixing with a wad of Bazooka Joe. That
can't be good."
Speaking of God, I got to wondering recently, who cuts God's
hair. Does he trim it Himself? If we are talking about eternity,
that is staggering number of hair cuts. There must be a barber
shop or salon in Heaven. Would you have to make an appointment,
I wonder? Are walk-ins accepted? Maybe you float in.
If there is no life on other planets, why did God make the
cosmos so freakin' big? Did He just get carried away? Is it
a guy thing? Or is it that we’re not supposed to know for
some reason. Maybe the same deal that we have here on Earth
is going on somewhere else and we’ll only get to find out
when the game is over. The bible says that on the seventh
day God rested. So, the next day He wakes up, He's fresh,
and He's looking at another 51 weeks to round out the year.
How does He fill those? C’mon.
Always remember, an open mind is a valuable asset, unlike a
poor shoe sense... those socks are not a good idea :)
Michael McGan 29th June 2008 |