Let’s see, if I was a father and I wanted to give a gift to my children, a special gift, like an inheritance, something out in the future, I’d put quite a bit of thought into it. You should sort of know it’s coming, but not perfectly, not until everything is ready. I’d probably let some hints out, not real obvious, just getting you to trust me . . . that I had your best in mind. The hints would grow in number and variety over time. Only in looking back, after the surprise is presented, would you see it had been planned all along.<\/p>\n
Yes, I’d find that very satisfying and, I think, you would too.<\/p>\n
Here’s another . . .<\/p>\n
If I was the maker of all mankind and, seeing help was needed, wanted to join you for a time, how would I do it?<\/p>\n
Would I be something of a superhero, dropping in with a cape and costume and unusual powers, fighting crime on one hand and posing as a Mr. Mild on the other? But where would I have come from? You’d want to know. And is crime the real problem, or something deeper?<\/p>\n
Would I come as an angel (probably shedding wings), showing up at moments and then mysteriously disappearing? You’d probably find that disconcerting, worrying, off putting and scary.<\/p>\n
How about as if someone “back from the dead,” with knowledge of the other world<\/em> . . . and promises and warnings of what to hope for or dread? But who would I say I had been?<\/p>\n How would I, to quote Jim Morrison, “jump in your game?”<\/p>\n I know. I’d get myself born.\u00a0I’d travel the whole road you do, starting with the birth canal.\u00a0Not that hard, really, as miracles go . . . God-sperm meets human egg and voila<\/em>, holy hybrid . . . with full attributes of both Mother and Dad.<\/p>\n Yes, that’s what I’d do. Both of these two. And I did!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To us he<\/em>\u00a0is the present <\/p>\n ________________________<\/p>\n So endth my seven Advent meditations.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you were the Lord, how would you do it? If you had all brains, all wisdom, all power and all love, would you do it any different than he did? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":80,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10736,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions\/10736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA swaddling\u00a0surprise on the straw
\nNew, but previously promised
\nA gift . . . to be opened with awe.<\/p>\n
\n We’ll get back to “normal subjects” again shortly.<\/em>
\n Just didn’t want to miss the chance to look again at what’s so great to look at every year.<\/em><\/p>\n