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I've got a great story to share. If you're not a Christian, it'll just make you groan.
I was working in the sound booth at church when a friend stopped by to tell me about his experience with my daughter in the nursery. (She's two going on three-years-old in March.) He's an elderly guy who I have lots of respect for. He and his wife help in the nursery together.
Apparently as he was reading a children's picture book of the Bible to her they came across a picture of Jesus that coincided with the story he was reading. He stopped reading to show her the picture and to tell her that it was a picture of Jesus. She corrected him by telling him that it was a picture of her Daddy (me). He was confused because he hadn't put two and two together that she was MY daughter. He corrected her that the drawing was of Jesus. She, in turn, sternly corrected him, saying that it was a picture of her Daddy.
Another nursery helper told him that she was David's daughter. And then he understood the connection.
I guess to my two-year-old daughter I now look like Jesus. I take it as a compliment.
DavidH
Yes, I believe we all suffer from this misnomer. I've been alternatively labeled Jesus and Legolas, mostly the former. The funny part is that the oldest drawings of Jesus were centuries after his death, and there are absolutely no descriptions of him with long hair, nor would Jesus likely have been white. Given that he was of Jewish ancestry and living 2000 years ago in the Middle East, I can picture him being brown skinned, and with curly hair.
So they probably got the length, colour of skin, and type of hair wrong in the drawings. There was a fairly interesting study on what Jesus may have looked like somewhere on the internet.
GROAN .... LoL no seriously. I'm not a christian but it was cute. And there could be a lot worse people in her head. I used to get the look like Manson thing a lot back in my 20's. I just ask them "Ya wanna hit of acid?!!"
I like it, neat story!
That is a great story and glad you posted it. It is amazing the associations young chilren can make and how their minds work. We older ones can only wish that we could see the world from that perspective again.
Without debating whether Jesus did or did not have long hair -- that's neither here nor there -- I am often quite surprised how powerfully the imagery of a long haired prophet is burned into our consciousness.
Beautiful story, David! I get told quite often at church that I look like Jesus and it always makes my day!
Does that mean she thinks you walk on water? ~grin~
But yeah, it's cute.