PART 36

What would Jesus have been for Halloween? Himself? Jesus as Jesus?  Growing up; I always wanted to believe that He would have a sort of self degrading humor about himself like that. Warm and dry and subtly funny.  I think it would make the whole “titling himself as the SON OF GOD” thing more bearable if He was throwing in a few snide comments on his tattered robes or something. Maybe that’s just me trying to conform a religious icon into something understandable. Something more like me. Oh sure! The creator of all things manifested himself into the form of a man. He intertwined spirit and cosmos and flesh and mystery. And I’d be more impressed if he talked like Larry David.

This isn’t anything new though. Most of us are looking for ourselves, aren’t we? In a mate or a home or friends or music or religion or literature or workout routines or clothing styles or political figures or art. In the end, we naturally are drawn to the understandable. Not because of it’s simplicity… because the longer you stare at anything you realize that nothing is simple and everything is complicated. Everything has more bones and joints and veins and stray hairs and bruises and blemishes than we think. Anything deemed simple has simply not been properly examined. I think we are drawn to the understandable because it makes us understand ourselves. A connection with anything means you are realizing a truth about your own being. To relate to another is to enlighten yourself. I REPEAT: TO RELATE TO ANOTHER IS TO ENLIGHTEN YOURSELF. It’s very exciting.

I think I’m going to go as an aura for Halloween. The aura of Jesus. The aura of Jesus performing at The Laugh Factory. The aura of Jesus performing at The Laugh Factory who points out every minuscule fault and scar and scratch and evidence of uniqueness to everyone who has ever existed. I’ll be here all week, folks.