Um … yeah, right.
Now there’s a candle that lets you experience the scent of Jesus, and they’ve been selling out by the case.
“We see it as a ministry, ” says Bob Tosterud, who together with his wife came up with the idea for the candle.
Light up the candle called “His Essence” and its makers say you’ll experience the fragrance of Christ.
Uh … and to quote the excellent BoingBoing headline for this, “Jesus Christ, what is that smell?”
Bob Tosterud and wife Karen say the formula is all spelled out in Psalm 45.
“It’s a Messianic Psalm referring to when Christ returns and his garments will have the scent of myrrh, aloe and cassia,” says Karen Tosterud.
Wondering what that must smell like, Karen Tosterud ordered those oils, a combination that produces sort of a flowery, cinnamon aroma.
Okay, well, I guess I can see that. Still, it seems a bit … um … kitschy. And I’m not sure, to be honest, how literally you should take Ps. 45, especially if you’re considering it to describe the Messiah. I don’t recall, for example, Jesus girding a sword to his side, or having “the queen in gold of Ophir” standing next to him much, let alone the daughter of the king of Tyre and her accompanying virgins.
Obviously I have my allegory and my literalism mixed up. Frankly, I suspect the apostles probably experienced a rather different scent of Jesus during those long days on the road in Palestine …
The Road to Palestine…
Was the the one with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour in modest clothing and a head scarf instead of a sarong?;->
Wasn’t there a song about this in Jesus Christ Superstar?
Either it was Gethsemane or Superstar…can’t quite remember.
Yeah, I remember that one — Bing is sentenced to be crucified for smoking a pipe at the Temple, but Bob cracks a joke at the wrong time and gets hung up there instead, while Bing and Dorothy head off to Rome on their honeymoon.
They don’t make ’em like that any more.
Well…
Bing always did get the girl…Even in Bob Hope’s movies.
Hmmm…
Roman Holiday
Wasn’t that the one where Bing Crosby was a hang dog reporter and Dorothy Lamour is an italian Princess who escapes from her minder Zero Mostel on the way to the Circus?
Yeah…it had Bing’s great hit I’m dreaming of a white wedding in it.