Jesus Sightings: People See the Lord's Face in Unusual Places

I don’t know about you, but when I’m standing in line at Walmart or Kroger, waiting to check out behind someone who’s bought half the store, I pass time by glancing through the tabloids. My favorite, since I’m not into celebrities, is The National Inquirer, which provides me with really important newsworthy events that I might otherwise miss, for instance, not only alien abductions but Jesus sightings. Yes, that’s right, Jesus sightings.

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Seriously, I kid you not. People actually see Jesus, or at least his image, in the most interesting places. Take Dave Simmons, for instance. He saw the face of Jesus on a restroom stall door. It’s true. I mean, would The National Inquirer lie? In this case, no, since this particular occurrence was also reported by sources you might consider more reputable, including The Huffington Post and The Daily Mail in the U.K.

Apparently, Dave was shopping for curtain rods in an IKEA shop in Braehead, Glasgow and needed to make a stop in the restroom, where, lo and behold, he spied Jesus’s face staring back at him from the stall door. I kid you not, and Simmons claims it’s true. He said, “I went to the toilet, and there it was on the main door when I put my hand out.  I said, 'Oh, my word, it’s Jesus.'” Moreover, to squelch any doubt, Dave provided a photo he took with his Smartphone, as incontestable proof of his “Jesus sighting.” Of course, some folks say the face looks more like that of one of the tree people from Lord of the Rings than it does Jesus, but I guess that’s open to debate, and perhaps depends upon the lighting and the angle you’re standing at while looking at the face.  

Anyway, Dave isn’t alone. Through the years, there have been other sightings of the Lord’s face, most famously perhaps in a taco, a piece of toast, a frying pan, and a Walmart receipt. Plus, although it didn’t make any headlines, probably because it happened well before Smartphones or even the Internet had been invented, there was a Jesus sighting in a kudzu field in Fairburn, Georgia back when I was a little girl. It was the talk of the town for years.

Granted, Fairburn was a small town back then, so any event the least bit out of the ordinary would be rehashed for years to come, but still, this event was rather noteworthy. See, my Uncle Louie, who liked his liquor perhaps a bit too much, was relaxing in a kudzu field (Folks said he tripped, hit his head, passed out for a spell, and finally came to) when he glimpsed Jesus staring down at him from a kudzu-covered tree. Well, Uncle Louie jumped up, shouted a few “Praise-the-Lords,” and staggered home to tell folks what he’d seen there in that kudzu field. Not that anyone believed him, but that Jesus sighting, while not traumatic enough to make my uncle give up drinking, did lead to his being baptized for the third time, or maybe it was the fourth; I forget.  

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