I was thinking about Jesus as a young boy. br You never hear about that side of him. br You just hear about him as a baby in a br manger with straw and Christmas lights, br and then all of a sudden – poof! – he’s br walking around in a beige caftan with a br full (trimmed) beard performing miracles. br But what was he like at seven or eight br years old? Was he a goody-two-shoes or br was he kind of bratty like most kids? br Maybe it’s like Superman. You don’t br really hear about HIS boyhood much br either. Sure, there are the Superboy comic br books, but they were never as good as the br Superman ones. I know what you’re going br to say, that Jesus Christ is a superhero br himself, right? Maybe so. But I still think br we need Superman around to do all the br menial work – you know, like nabbing br crooks and catching school buses falling br off of bridges and stopping guys with br nuclear bombs. Jesus never seems to want br to get his hands dirty with that kind of br stuff. Not that he’s a slacker. No way. br He’s just got more important things to do br with his time.