I got Jesus for my birthday
I turned 34 today, pretty much a nothing birthday. With the wedding of Jenni and Peter happening on Saturday, and the Service of Recognition happening at Romsey on Sunday, my birthday had in fact slipped my mind. Until I got my birthday present from my four-year-old nephew, Damian, and my two-year-old niece, Olivia. They gave me Jesus.
As you can see from this photo, Jesus is soft and cuddly and generally cute. As are my nephew and niece.
Olivia insisted that Jesus should coming shopping with us this morning, so he kept Olivia amused while I shopped for clothes for the wedding. He provoked a lot of questions from other shoppers, and there were some raised eyebrows in the vicinty when Olivia informed me of what “Baby Jesus” was doing, when he was upside down, or he was looking under the changing room door, for example.
Jesus is made by Tadpals and is one of the Holy Folks. The back of the box tells me that I can also buy Mary with the baby Jesus; Moses with the two tablets of the law;and Noah with two miniature elephants. Just in case you want your own …
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Oh… my… Jesus!
Oh well, at least he will be company for you, living in that big, Romsey manse (just watch out for the peeping under doors thing, that could be disturbing)
Happy birthday dear. That Jesus thing is too awful. Don’t know where to begin. Apple-cheeks, velveteen ‘fro, praying hands and accessories? Miniature elephants?? Reminds me of the Andrew Denton feature doco in which someone was trying to assemble a taxidermied pair of ‘all’ the animals in the ark. Kept ‘em in a warehouse or aircraft hangar or something and took them on tour of the US of A. You may now be able to rival Cheryl Lawrie for her collection of Christian kitsch. But she knows her stuff: http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/meek-and-mild-teacher-or-mysterious-rebel-with-a-cause/2007/04/07/1175366526637.html
Hope you had a happy birthday. My daughter is currently very “over” church and religion in general but heavily into cute stuffed toys. Maybe this would be a good gift.
Soft plush Jesus will join the Superhero Jesus that one of my students gave me a few years ago. I’ve never taken him out of the box, so I haven’t been able to experience his “real, gliding movement” for myself. Superhero Jesus sat on my mantelpiece at college to the delight or horror of many of the JCH students.
I will admit that soft plush Jesus (with beard!) looks rather different to what I had expected from Damian and Olivia (or was it just Damian?)’s comments about “baby Jesus”.
I think Noah-with-miniature-elephants sounds rather cool, but then, that’s just my thing for elephants rearing its head…
Looked up the Holy Folks web site. Strange:
I didn’t see any puppets of Job, naked, decrepit and crushed sitting on his pile of the proverbial stuff (or whatever)…. nor do they appear to have remembered to include Goliath with his cracked head (courtesy King D). And just where is the delectable seductress Delilah doll???!