The image of Jesus Christ has reportedly been spotted in all sorts of places – in tortillas, sheet metal, and dental X-rays. While many people draw inspiration from these miraculous visages, many more who lack such faith are all too eager to ridicule those who claim they see the image of the Son of God in items like fish bones, spilled hot chocolate, and the discarded shell of a barbequed shrimp.

In spite of this likely derision, one brave, local, Christian man, seeing such an image after asking for a sign from the Almighty, helped spread the word about the power of God by sharing his story with WAFB’s Paul Gates. Risking vigorous mockery by heathenish skeptics and certain magazines inclined to satirize such accounts, Albany resident Robb Keppler proudly professed his faith by telling South Louisiana and the rest of the world about the miracle of Jesus appearing in his bathroom sink in the form of a rust stain.

Keppler, whose 21-year-old son went through a bad relationship before joining the Army, said he prayed for a sign by telling God, “Let me know something.” He told Gates, “I was having a hard time dealing with it myself and stepped out the shower one night and saw it plain as day right there.” Pointing to the remarkably Messiah-like stain, Keppler insisted, “It is an image of Jesus, a clear sign.”

In fact, Keppler’s spirit was so lifted by the rusty revelation that he awakened his son, who is serving in Afghanistan, with the good news that very night. Hallelujah!

As expected, a few hell-bound unbelievers have used this inspiring testimony of the Savior in the sink to make fun of Keppler and his faith. They left comments on WAFB’s website about how the image is actually Darth Vader’s and that the stain is a sign that Keppler needs to clean his nasty sink. Unsaved reprobates are they all!

Who’s to say that Jesus can’t reveal himself as a rust stain at the bottom of a sink in Livingston Parish? His first miracle was turning water into wine. Why can’t he perform another miracle by turning water into an iron oxide self-portrait?

While stories of this sort are typically relegated to the offbeat section of most media outlets and covered by people like CNN’s Jeannie Moos, Keppler’s miracle was covered by Louisiana’s News Channel’s chief investigative reporter. This fact alone gives Keppler much more credence than those who claim they saw Jesus in the rear end of a three-year-old terrier mix named Angus MacDougall.