Funny

I make no claim that the following list of chance occurrences from my first “twenty-six years” serves as evidence of my divinity, and I have never believed I am Jesus or any other deity. I hesitated to include this account, concerned that it might be misunderstood as ideas of reference associated with schizophrenia, but this list is my life, regardless, and is entertaining at best. Compiled recently in my middle age, long after my self-revelation, the list includes the following:

• I was expected to be "born" on Christmas Eve but "arrived" several days prior.
• My father wanted to name me Jesse but my mother insisted on James, after my grandfather.
• My Ma's name Pauline is reminiscent of the Pauline epistles.
• My name, James, signifies “supplanter.”
• My mother got a white dove for me shortly after my "birth."
• My father was named James, and his mother was Mary.
• My mother referred to my father as Big Jim and me as Little Jimmy.
• I belong to Generation X.
• The moment I appeared on earth I was sleeping. I was dreaming, and I saw a blue face in the upper right hand corner of my bedroom which makes me think of the Hindu God Krishna, haha.
• My kindergarten class in 1980 comprised twelve boys, excluding myself.
• My mother formed a relationship with a carpenter, lasting ten years, during which I acquired certain skills.
• My first cousins are Elizabeth and Michael. I also have two first cousins named John, and a deceased first cousin named Paul.
• Two donkeys named Minnie and Pearl resided near my childhood home. ha ha
• My great-grandfather was named Manuel.
• In my youth, I encountered difficulty with an individual named Michael and was arrested. However, I wouldn't consider this one funny.
• An elderly woman named Esther occupied the apartment above mine in my first residence.
• The love of my life was named Olive.
• I have a son named Gabriel, and my father had a daughter named Gabriel; their mothers, without each other's knowledge, independently chose this name.
• My sister’s father, Philip, shares a birth date with my son Gabriel.
• I sculpted a bird out of clay fifteen years before hearing of the gnostic gospels, haha.

God has a sense of humor!