Ersatz Eden

It was completely out of character for me to utter that ridiculous introduction.  I plead temporary insanity.  I’ve since learned that SHE does not flirt, is a one man woman, and 999,999 times out of 1,000,000 would pretend to not even hear such an outrageous gambit.  Maybe it was my innocent face.  Anyway, astonishingly, she picked up on the line and replied that she’d trade her soul for a house like this one.

Aha!  An answer!  A Faustian answer!  What did that make me?  Shame on me!  I kept playing along.  I pulled up a chair.  As it turned out, she was there with the band.  Her husband was playing drums and I noticed him glaring at me a couple of times as I sat beside his wife just chatting about life in general, the state of the world, popular entertainment, the usual b. s.  It hadn’t occurred to me that she’d be married.  Don’t misunderstand.  She was an adult, fully developed and yet still looked as innocent as a child.  She wore no ring, seemed shy and spoke quietly with a sexy foreign accent.

Now might be a good time to muse about the nomenclature: SHE. I’ve decided that disclosing her name would cheapen her impact within the context of this narrative.  Epiphany:  That must be why English speaking Christians use the Greek name Jesus rather than the Hebrew name Joshua or even Yeshua in mentioning the Christ.  If our King James Bibles said: Joshua did this or that you already have a mental image of a person named Joshua. You have an image of Old Testament Joshua who was a heroic general who fought the battle at Jericho.  You may personally know many contemporary men named Josh or Joshua.  It trivializes the awesome personality of the one and only Son of God, Mary, and Joseph.  He deserves a unique name.

But then there’s no way I can explain why the Spanish speakers stick with the name Jesus, a Greek misspelling, mispronouncing, of Hebrew because they call their sons, fathers, uncles Haysoos.  There are thousands of Haysooses in the Hispanic language world.  Does that invalidate my theory about the English speaking world?  You decide.