The older I get, the more I am convinced, God has a great sense of humor. He has to have, right? I mean, look at us. In some ways, all of us are messed up. We make terrible decisions, do stupid things, blame others for our mistakes, make ridiculous statements, and act like we were never taught how to act. When he is not shaking his head in dismay, he must be laughing with that “when will you ever learn?” laugh!
I am sure God is getting a big kick out of all the sightings of Jesus in our favorite foods. Yes, food. Funny, no one sees Jesus in their laundry hamper or in the dishwasher, but if you look at a piece of lightly browned wheat toast or in a bag or your favorite potato chips, you just might find him!
In the past several years, hundreds of people have claimed to see Jesus in their food. Not just on toast or a potato chip, but in a breakfast taco, on a pancake, a banana peel, a pierogi, a pizza, ice cream, a fish stick, (He did talk about fishing a lot) and a grilled cheese sandwich. There is even a “Funyun” Jesus, a pretzel Jesus, and my favorite, the “Cheeto” Jesus. The woman who found the image of Jesus on her pierogi, sold for $1,775 on eBay! You found Jesus on your pierogi and you sold it on eBay? Talk about the height of sacrilege!
According to researchers, if you see Jesus on your toast or in a bag of potato chips, this is completely normal! Really? What is normal about claiming you saw Jesus in a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos? But, lead researcher Kang Lee, says, “Our findings suggest that it’s common for people to see non-existent features because human brains are uniquely wired to recognize faces.”
According to USA Today, Lee and his colleagues showed participants random pixelated images that were simply “noise,” Lee says, but 35% of subjects spotted faces or letters when researchers told them such images were there.” As Lee puts it, “believing is seeing,” and we see what we expect to see. “What we have shown is that a lot of what we see and perceive is actually determined by biases that already exist in our brains” before our brains process an image we’re seeing,” Lee concluded.
So, the next time you read someone saw Jesus when they bit into an apple or on an ice cube floating in their favorite cold beverage, (Yes, someone actually reported seeing Jesus in their gin and tonic.) they aren’t delusional. They are perfectly normal!
Meanwhile, God sits in heaven and shakes his head and laughs!
The Lonesome Leaker 
I just listened to an NPR article discussing how we easily recognize faces (even if they are wrong) that we are familiar with. I guess Jesus is common enough…. apparently we don’t find a lot of Salman Rushdie or Stephen King as they are just not quite up there with the familiarity of the God son.
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