I love browsing the Crazy Deals at Ocean State Job Lots. They usually involve making specific purchases and getting rewarded with store gift cards, and they often involve items that I would normally have absolutely no interest in purchasing. Or later wish I hadn’t.

There was a Crazy Deal on toilet paper a couple of weeks back. I was so excited that we received the flyer describing it on the same day I stole the last roll of tp from my guest bathroom that I didn't bother to read the fine print. It wasn't until the third time I used it that I discovered that the new, odd perfumy scent in my bathroom was actually wafting up from my roll of toilet paper. It was scented! Yeah, I kind of regret making that deal.

Sometimes crazy deals are just, well, crazy. For a while they had another one: spend $1500 on thermometers and get a $1000 crazy deal card. Everyone's birthday and Christmas presents would be from Job Lots for decades to come! I wonder how many thermometers that would get me…

As I sat deeply pondering the various crazy deals I've participated in (it was another long day of training), I realized that Jesus made the ultimate crazy deal.

I can almost picture Jesus trying to explain it.

I'm going to slip out of this temple here in Heaven and go live in poverty as little kid. I'll grow up slowly, dealing with all the typical teenage stuff. Then I'm going to turn the world upside down, before being arrested, tortured, and executed for it. In exchange I'll get… You.

No, not in a 'you're my slave, you must serve me and do my every command' kind of way. But in a 'you get to move into my temple and be part of my family' kind of way.

No, you don't have to do anything. I'll take care of it.

So what do you think? Do we have a deal?

God Himself took human form, lived, died and rose again so that I could later join Him in Heaven and Live.

It's crazy.

But it's one deal I'm snatching up with no regrets!