Grandma
Got a letter from Grandma the other day. She writes...
The other day I went up to a local Christian bookstore and saw a "Honk if you love Jesus" bumper sticker. I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting, so I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper. Boy, I'm glad I did! What an uplifting experience that followed! I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good He is... and I didn't notice that the light had changed. It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn't honked, I'd never have noticed!
I found that LOTS of people love Jesus! Why, while I was sitting there the guy behind started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, "For the love of GOD! GO! GO! Jesus Christ, GO!"
What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus! Everyone started honking! I just leaned out of my window and started waving and smiling at all these loving people. I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!
There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a "sunny beach"...
I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air.
Then I asked my teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant, and he said that it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something. Well, I've never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign back.
My grandson burst out laughing... why, even he was enjoying this religious experience!
A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me. I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed.
So, grinning, I waved to all my sisters and brothers, and drove on through the intersection. I noticed I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed. I felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared, so I slowed the car down leaned out of the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away.
Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!
Grandma
Thoughts:
You know, you just gotta love grandmas. But this joke reminds me of a different dynamic and it's actually pretty accurate if you think about it. This grandma is a great analogy of how far the vast majority of people are from objective reality, and it demonstrates why. This is exactly why the world is in the state it is in. Psychopaths easily take advantage of us because by default we're ALL that grandma. And I guess it also demonstrates the frustration that those who are awakening experience when interacting with sleeping people, and how all the buffers and assumptions and beliefs "interpret" everything through that giant filter of delusion. Similarly, it shows why people don't speak the same language, why the muddled "world" of a normal person does not allow them to understand another person's subjective interpretations and words, we're lucky we can get anything across to one another at all! And people wonder why aliens don't just "land" and say hello..
Got a letter from Grandma the other day. She writes...
The other day I went up to a local Christian bookstore and saw a "Honk if you love Jesus" bumper sticker. I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting, so I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper. Boy, I'm glad I did! What an uplifting experience that followed! I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good He is... and I didn't notice that the light had changed. It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn't honked, I'd never have noticed!
I found that LOTS of people love Jesus! Why, while I was sitting there the guy behind started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, "For the love of GOD! GO! GO! Jesus Christ, GO!"
What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus! Everyone started honking! I just leaned out of my window and started waving and smiling at all these loving people. I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!
There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a "sunny beach"...
I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air.
Then I asked my teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant, and he said that it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something. Well, I've never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign back.
My grandson burst out laughing... why, even he was enjoying this religious experience!
A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me. I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed.
So, grinning, I waved to all my sisters and brothers, and drove on through the intersection. I noticed I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed. I felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared, so I slowed the car down leaned out of the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away.
Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!
Grandma
Thoughts:
You know, you just gotta love grandmas. But this joke reminds me of a different dynamic and it's actually pretty accurate if you think about it. This grandma is a great analogy of how far the vast majority of people are from objective reality, and it demonstrates why. This is exactly why the world is in the state it is in. Psychopaths easily take advantage of us because by default we're ALL that grandma. And I guess it also demonstrates the frustration that those who are awakening experience when interacting with sleeping people, and how all the buffers and assumptions and beliefs "interpret" everything through that giant filter of delusion. Similarly, it shows why people don't speak the same language, why the muddled "world" of a normal person does not allow them to understand another person's subjective interpretations and words, we're lucky we can get anything across to one another at all! And people wonder why aliens don't just "land" and say hello..
That is very funny. Thanks for sharing the humor!
