Tapered Jeans, Pink Shirts and Jesus

I had this girlfriend once, but we ended up breaking up. It was probably a good move for her because she's a lot cooler than me. For example she wears really cool clothes and understands style, but me, well I suppose I don't have a great sense of style. I remember how a few months after we had been dating she mentioned to me that she didn't like tapered jeans. I agreed with her, not because I dislike tapered jeans, but because I figured it would make me sound more cool if I agreed. Then she kind of nonchalantly asked me if I owned any tapered jeans. I knew at that point I had been busted, and that she wasn't really asking me that as a question because she already knew the answer, but I still tried to play it off. I told her that of course I didn't own any tapered jeans, because only dorks would wear those kinds of things, and that I wasn't a dork. But then she reminded me that one of the first times we ever hung out I was wearing tapered jeans. I was a little bit surprised that she had even noticed, but then again I guess this goes to show that she really is a lot cooler then me. So I'd say that her next boyfriend will probably wear really cool clothes, and not tapered jeans.

She also really liked pink shirts. I didn't. But she would always talk about how guys look "hot" when they wear pink shirts. I had never owned a pink shirt before, but then I went out one day and bought two at the same time. I was hoping I would look "hot" when I wore them, and that I would be more cool. I tried to say that the reason I bought them was because I knew that she liked them and I wanted to do something nice or special or whatever you want to call it for her. But I don't think this is completely true. I think I probably bought them because I wanted to look more cool. But then I tried to wear one of these pink shirts with my tapered jeans and I don't think that it went so well. Maybe pink shirts just aren't my thing.

So I don't wear the pink shirts very often anymore. I don't wear the tapered jeans either - well not as often as I used to. I went to a store and pondered the idea of buying some new jeans, but I noticed that all of the new jeans were already faded and torn up with a bunch of holes in them. Apparently that's how cool people buy their jeans nowadays; pre-faded and pre-torn with a bunch of holes already in them. So when they buy them they are not really new; but they are cool. I have a few pairs of pants that I've been wearing for four or five years now and they are a bit faded and torn up but they don't look like the new jeans that the cool people buy from the store with the holes already in them.

I wonder what kinds of clothes Jesus would wear if he was walking the streets of America today. I don't think that he would wear pink shirts and trendy jeans that you buy already faded and torn up with a bunch of holes in them. I think that Jesus would probably be more of a bargain shopper and when He bought new jeans, they wouldn't come with a bunch of holes already in them because the ones that are all faded and torn up with all of the holes in them are so much more expensive then the ones without all of the holes - like the tapered ones.

But maybe buying new jeans from the store that are already faded and torn up with a bunch of holes in them is kind of like what Jesus does with us.

He accepts, and even chooses us, when we are all messed up. He doesn't ask us to come to Him only after we are fixed and perfect. He takes us just like we are - faded and torn up with holes all over the place.

So maybe Jesus choosing and accepting us in our worn out and messed up state is like the cool guys who buy the new jeans that are already faded and torn up with a bunch of holes in them. It kind of makes sense because I think that Jesus is pretty cool.

Peace to you.

M. Pascal