Your very own personalized baby Jesus!

Do we complicate Christianity, to the point of losing Christianity? How about silencing Jesus, and replacing him with someone a little less invasive upon how you spend your personal time. Have you ever done that? I call it muffling Jesus with the ol' pillow case.

I'll raise my hand and admit that I do it. Yes, yes I do. We all do it. We tack on teachings and opinions at a nauseating clip. We lug around revised editions of the Bible with our own Jesus penciled in.

You know what I'm talking about right? It's the magic trick performed as you rationalize Jesus in your own mind. Rationalize mean Jesus out, and pencil in new baby Jesus! You pencil in your wanna be teachings in the margins and pray they make the death-defying leap into the text.

Then we hastily hide the ink to admire our newly created baby Jesus. We slow down to reflect on what we created, but we toss cookies because we've dizzied ourselves from our dazzling sound and light magic show. Coming to, we recognize that this Jesus is mind-boggling, and no one can make heads or tails out of this Christianity. Why would they kill this Jesus with his nice reasonable teachings? Anything salvageable is left abstract and in the clouds. It’s all so deranged and obtuse. But one thing is clear, this Jesus is cute, and cuddly too! I want to pet him. Aww, nice Jesus, nice Jesus, good boy.

Let the Jesus of the Bible cut into you today, instead of you cutting him out. We make it complicated, because we don't like what is plainly written. And what is plainly written is Messiah Jesus infringing upon our nice neat lives.