I could stand on the steps of my home’s front door and hit the back of their house with a rock.  Mary and John lived on the next street down. Between us was a small cottage home where a mother and her son lived. I’ll call Helen, who had a statue of Catholic Mary  standing in her clamshell on top of a filled over concrete wading pool that as children we once played in. They filled it in as we got older later on Mary was placed on top to guard it against ever being used again.  If there were any Jewish people or Muslims in the neighborhood, they would not have found Christ at either of our three houses we were religious, not relational. When did Mary have  the time to pose for her statue?  Why would a Jewish woman like Mary mother of Jesus  sanction a statue of… Read moreMary and John C. Were Neighbors of Mine.