Prince of Peace

During class on Tuesday, it was brought up a couple of times that no one knows what Jesus Christ actually looks like. Sure, we have a few paintings, drawings, sketches, or sculptures that make a decent guess, but we don't actually know.

I'd like to point out, however, that I believe we do.

If anyone has ever read the novel "Heaven is for Real", you'd know that in that book there is a painting. A painting done by a girl who had died, gone to heaven, and come back to this world. And it just so happened that this girl was a phenomenal artist, so she brought a piece of heaven back with her. And she called it "Prince of Peace".

In the story, a young boy had the same experience of going to heaven but then coming back. He was a young boy, so young that he couldn't possibly have known the things he came back with like knowing about his mother's miscarriage, or about the "markers" on Jesus's palms. But he did and that's where the novel came from.

His father tried day after day showing his son pictures of Jesus, all of them to no avail. That is until his eyes fell on the painting entitled "Prince of Peace". When he showed this painting to his son, the boy fell silent until he finally said, "Dad, this one's right."

So, I offer to all of you readers out there, this painting. Now we have a little glimpse of the face of our Savior, Jesus Christ.