Sunday, September 7, 2014

Bumper sticker belief, part 1

You can judge a lot about people by the bumper stickers they put on their cars...

My neighbor who lives across the street seems to be a good guy...but he's been through more women since we have lived here than I have gotten rid of dust rags.  Quite a few have lived there for a few months before suddenly leaving, and now he has another one who seems to have mostly moved in, at least on weekends.

On the back of her car are three bumper stickers:  one for a sports team, one that says 'Sh*t Happens' (without the asterisk), and one that says 'Got Jesus?'  For the longest time it sorta offended me that on the one hand she had a bumper sticker that seemed to express a belief in Jesus, while at the other time expressing a crude profanity that doesn't need to be seen any more than it needs to be heard.

The more I've thought about it, though, the more I realize that there's actually some consistent truths on the back of this car.  Bad things happen, and do you have Jesus?  I'm pretty certain that there's probably not a lot of real thought put in to this by the owner of the car...she probably thought that the first was funny while the second was slapped on a moment of piety.  But the fact remains...a lot of crap happens in life, and where is your hope?  When sh*t gets dumped onto your life, is Jesus there?