I was thinking one day about how influential Jesus is even to this day. His teachings have been used to do great good and misused to do great evil. It causes some people to dedicate their lives and even martyr themselves for something they can't see, feel, or touch. On the other hand it creates seclusionist fanatics that separate themselves from others and condemn the world. Needless to say he definitely left his mark on the world. But the craziest thing to me about all this is that he never bothered to write anything. Think about all the most influential people in the world from ancient days until now and everyone else has written stuff. Jesus, the most influential of them all, didn't even have to write anything. It has simply been his story that has carried the influence around. This makes me wonder about what he wrote in the sand that day when the crowd was about to stone the adulterous women (John 8:1-11). "1But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." 8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 11"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin." He wrote something twice in the sand. I know it's not possible to know what he wrote but I think it must have been something pretty crazy. I love this story because its so powerful but now I get distracted by imagining what and how to find out what he wrote. It was the only recorded instance of him writing something and I just want to believe it was somehow preserved/burned into the ground somehow and one day archeologists will discover it. So in conclusion I just want to say how crazy I think it is that Jesus is so influential and he did it through action, not theoretical philosophies. He just simply lived and loved people the best way possible. Amazing. To think that me, an Asian American man, professes a faith who origins are Jewish and continued on in the Middle East, from a small sect of men 2000 years ago. All this from a man who didn't write a thing, except in that lucky, sandy plot of earth. | 
