Editor,
This morning on my way to work, I drove under a rainbow-colored balloon emblazoned with the letters, “WWJD.” It made me wonder, what WOULD Jesus do, were he here in our fair town today?
I like to imagine that he would ride around in a low-floating hot-air balloon, bobbing at 30 feet or so in the air so that people could gather below him to hear his sermons, in which he would excoriate us for our collective abandonment of the poor, the sick, the homeless and the stateless. He would tell us not to buy so much, and maybe to stay home on Black Friday this year, so that no one gets trampled in His name.
Then, he would toss those $5 McDonald’s coupons to all the homeless, and they would dance as they caught the falling paper. His balloon would land at Nahalat Shalom, because you KNOW that’s the synagogue he’d go to, and he would officiate a lesbian wedding. He’d hop in the chase truck later and meet up with Don Schrader to take a walk down Central Avenue, shaking hands with the junkies and prostitutes, miraculously multiplying the bus passes, as the beautiful Albuquerque sunset bathed their smiling faces in its pink glow.
Sincerely,
Rachel Langer
UNM alumna
