"The Human Jesus"
					This image of Jesus really brings to me a sense of Jesus as a person.  Someone we can relate to, rather than a higher being who we are scared of, and afraid to get to know.  In my mind, the picture conveys Jesus as a person to me the best because he is doing what would have been an everyday activity for people of his time, something that is completely ordinary.  Also, I am sure that we have all, at some time or another, felt like we desperately needed to be the sheep in Jesus' arm.  Often, we feel smaller than all of the others, insignificant and overshadowed.  Prayer, conversation with Jesus, brings us back to reality, and closer to Him.  There we feel His warmth, and the sense that He is right there, protecting us.  We realize He is watching over us at all times, and willing to be there for us when we get lost, which is very comforting. Picture from www.christian.ac.th
	Jesus the person is very different before all of the theology came around than after it.  Although Jesus is a divine figure, Theology has, in a way, elevated Him even higher.  It seems to me that He has been made very distant to us.  We were always taught that Jesus was a man of the people.  He associated, ate and drank with the social outcasts and downtrodden.  He wasn't exclusive at all, and most certainly didn't care where one had come from or what they had done.  If the people had faith in Him, Jesus was willing to associate with them, and also forgive them.  He was often mocked and ridiculed for his relationships with the lowest of their society, leaving the rich to wonder why they didn't receive this treatment (or for that matter, since they were rich, even better treatment).  Today though, Jesus seems to be too perfect for us to even relate to.  He is so distant, and appears so hard to please, that I think a lot of people are afraid, and aren't sure what to do.  In the Gospel of Luke we are brought a Human Jesus, who tells things how they are.  We feel like we can really connect, knowing that we should fear God, but not to the point where we avoid Him.  Jesus is there to help us, not turn us away.  He even gives us a set of guidelines, and gives us the Beatitudes, telling us what to do to be blessed.  The real question is, do we actually heed His word, and look at the Beatitudes, comparing them to our life, and seeing if we truly live them out.  The Human Jesus is all about love, guidance, and reassurance, not about judgement and condemning.