"I Love Shoes And The Baby Jesus"
That's an actual quote a friend of a friend of mine got on an index card when he asked his students to tell him about their interests.
Noted without comment.
That's an actual quote a friend of a friend of mine got on an index card when he asked his students to tell him about their interests.
Noted without comment.
posted by Winston Smith at
2:13 PM
6 Comments:
Are they mutually exclusive? I think not.
I don't understand the derision. Why do you hate shoes?
Uh...sounds ironic, or fecetious...likely both.
Nope. By all indications, it was serious.
I like baby Jesus' little tiny shoes, too. They're adorable!
Two days late, but I dropped a comment in the Milgram Didn't Know the Half of It thread as well.
I've been mulling this over, and I think there's something interesting here that I never noticed before. The Bible admonishes believers to love God, and Jesus is an avatar of God, even as a baby, but I had always thought of that love as love for the Father.
It's a generous turn to love the Baby Jesus as a helpless infant, and it casts the loving one as a protector of God. I find this role reversal delightful and mystifying and I take back my initial thought that it was itself child-like, even if it may have been offered that way by the student who wrote it down.
Maybe we could all be magi.
(Trust me when I say that I didn't expect to end up here!)
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