It's a great way to go out as a character, but I'll miss Jesus.
Some miss Jesus' mark more than others (Henry VIII and his daughter, Bloody Mary, are prime examples) and some seem to exude the love Jesus spoke of during his ministry (Think, Mother Theresa and Pope Francis).
The Christian celebration of Easter is trans-tragic, because if we miss what Jesus was struggling against, we can never experience what makes Easter "Happy".
It was the half-century update of John Lennon's "We're more popular than Jesus," missing only John's wit and irony.
Probably my worst moment was pulling a woman out of a machine, missing four fingers and screaming, "Jesus, Mary, Jesus, I won't be able to work anymore".
A manger has been set up underneath the small Christmas tree for weeks, but the infant Jesus is missing.
Jesus went missing for three days once, before his parents found him in the temple in Jerusalem questioning religious teachers.
"Mary Mother, she been crying like you when Jesus was missing them three years," he told her. "So you crying about your son?
Like Sourp Giragos, this church had endured cycles of collapse and rebirth: in 1915, a treasured relic a fragment of a nail, supposedly among those hammered into Jesus' Cross went missing.
What is important is that Christians should be very careful that we are not so precious about what constitutes "respectful" use of Jesus that we miss the fact that Jesus might redeem others in a way that we cannot imagine.
