Shag Jesus, baby!

My friends either really love me, or Ireland. You be the judge.

Over the weekend, Christ Tabernacle in Herrick, Illinois, held a public auction in which they raised almost $20,000 for Terry McFarland's missionary work in Ireland.

I wasn't able to attend because I was working on wedding plans with MiMi, but my friends still thought of me.

Oh sure, up for grabs was a fifth-wheel camper, China sets, furniture, and a glass slipper that came to America on the Mayflower, . . . but the sweetest item of them all?

How about a 3-foot-wide by 2-foot-high shag-carpet plushy picture of Jesus praying in Gethsemane. (Just like the picture attached, only in 3-D plushy-shag).

Apparently, when my friends saw it, they both thought of me and immediately went into a bidding war! In the end, I was worth $55, or was it for Ireland?

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