Facing Jesus in My Living Room
8 min readJun 15, 2019
Religion is messy. Here’s to grey spots and question marks!
I came home the summer between my sophomore and junior year of college to a painting of Jesus hanging in the center of the biggest wall in the living room. His hair was shoulder length, the perfect shade of brown, glistening as the waves framed his face. His skin was light and he wore a white and red tunic. His eyes seemed to be looking right at me as…