A Hiatus from “The Adventures of the Boy Jesus”
Jesus was actually hesitant to talk with Abba about money. Something told him the subject might create a spiral that would take him to a place that was forbidding and unfamiliar.
Thus far, things had been almost easy, nearly comfortable. Even knowing his ominous future was somehow accepted. He would eventually be hunted down and killed. Even this was less disturbing than the idea of a problem that had no solution. That is exactly what he now felt. He sensed he would fail to understand or ever find an answer. Like the burning bush, the solution seemed beyond his power to penetrate.
Jesus did not wander to the customary place where he talked to Abba with a sense of solitude and peace. Today instead, he kicked stones. He was at loose ends.
In the morning, he did some work. He had some skill at building things in wood. Later he just wandered about. On days like this Jesus did not feel he was avoiding Abba. He simply failed to create a conscious sense of talking back and forth. He always had Abba in mind.
What Jesus did not know is that Abba was hardly inactive. Abba knew he and Jesus had reached a point where there was no one answer. The serial nature of the training had to end. The answers Jesus was seeking required an understanding that went beyond calling for repentance and urging people to know Abba.
Abba considered how to proceed. The creation had freedom, people could do as they decided. There would be no going back. But to go forward, one thing was needed. Jesus needed to learn to see what underlay money! And what underlay money was values. And values were quite literally what made the world go round. Teaching Jesus that, to think in those terms, could take him past where anyone had ever been.
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