Eric Bazilian of the Hooters wrote it as a demo, and Joan Osborne turned it into the most argued-about song of 1995. Some church folks called it disrespectful. I think it asks exactly the right question, just about two thousand years late. What if God was one of us? He was. Born in a barn, worked with His hands, got around on public transportation, the donkey kind. The stranger on the bus might be closer to Him than you think. So might the guy in the mirror, on a good day. Those are rare, but they happen.
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” John 1:14
— JC
