If I ever write a book about the Christian subculture, I’m going to call it Jesus Is In Our Meatloaf, a line I stole from my wife.
Here’s a little background:
My friend, Jim, recently broke his arm. It was a very bad break requiring surgery to fix. (Just an aside: If there are any attractive, single women in the Twin Cities area who would like to help care for Jim, let me know. Please include a picture with your resume.)
Anyway, in an effort to help out, everyone at church decided to take him food, offer to do household chores, etc. I took Jim some soup the day after his surgery. Here I was, good little Christian boy [stop laughing] taking my ailing friend some soup. When I arrived at his apartment, I was greeted by the presence of some of his non-Christian coworkers. (I should note that I do not in fact know the religious feelings of these people. They could very well be very devout Christians. I’m just assuming their lack of Christianity to make a point.)
I was joking with my wife, Nikki, that there is a tendency to want to “out love” non-Christians in situations like that. We want to prove that Christians are better at “helping a brother out” than our well intentioned “rivals.”
At that point, my wife chimed in, [add sarcasm] “Yeah, Jesus is in our meatloaf.”
God, I love that woman.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
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7 comments:
ditto.
Your wife sounds cool. She must cook a meek meatloaf!
Soome heads up,
Bobbie at Emerging Sideways gave your blog some play yesterday.
Take Care
Michael
That would be some fine Meatloaf.
Love the Blog BTW.
whoa, ben, you made bookslut! you're now officially cool in my book.
cheers,
kb.
i have linked you, just so you know.
I'm pretty sure my fiance's meatloaf has Cthulu in it.
It would be fun to do a taste test to see which is better.
He serves his with Leseur's young, small early peas. It's hard to beat that, even with Jesus.
(came here from bookslut.com blog -my fiance happens to be Michael Schaub's brother)
I also think GoWestYoung Man has kitsch value, maybe along the same lines as Wilson Phillips or Roxette.
if Jesus was truly in your meatloaf, you should have sold it on ebay. i understand the grilled cheese sandwich with the Blessed Mother garnered a fetching $28k.
for what it's worth.
peace.
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