‘Ah, the freedom’ “The Adventures of the Teen Jesus Part Two”

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Jesus wondered if he had ever really felt freedom. He wondered when he found himself say out loud, to no one at all, “Ah, the freedom!” Yes, he felt free.

But why? That was what seemed strange, until he thought about it.

The occasion of his burst of enthusiasm was a sense now that there was a great deal he could not really know.

That should have been obvious to him before Abba reminded him. But Abba had done more. Abba had suggested that the reality that he represented and stood for was all, everything, the whole of creation including anything that happened anywhere.

It did not mean that that was god exactly. But it meant that we were to regard realty as something that we should respect, even admire.

Jesus let out a deep breath. He breathed in again.

Yes, he felt free because he had, in times past, been always a bit worried about having everything in order, understood.

It was silly. It was an impossible thing to desire.

But he was deliciously free this very day. And it was because he could look around him and simply accept, whether he understood things or not.

It meant he was not special or anything at all. He had the freedom of the wanderer on an open road. He had always been that way but now he valued it differently. He was more aware and less burdened with the need to have all the answers.

He was happier than he had been.

He was at home.