I've been mulling this over, and I think there's something interesting here that I never noticed before. The Bible admonishes believers to love God, and Jesus is an avatar of God, even as a baby, but I had always thought of that love as love for the Father.
It's a generous turn to love the Baby Jesus as a helpless infant, and it casts the loving one as a protector of God. I find this role reversal delightful and mystifying and I take back my initial thought that it was itself child-like, even if it may have been offered that way by the student who wrote it down.
Maybe we could all be magi.
(Trust me when I say that I didn't expect to end up here!)
Are they mutually exclusive? I think not.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand the derision. Why do you hate shoes?
ReplyDeleteUh...sounds ironic, or fecetious...likely both.
ReplyDeleteNope. By all indications, it was serious.
ReplyDeleteI like baby Jesus' little tiny shoes, too. They're adorable!
ReplyDeleteTwo days late, but I dropped a comment in the Milgram Didn't Know the Half of It thread as well.
I've been mulling this over, and I think there's something interesting here that I never noticed before. The Bible admonishes believers to love God, and Jesus is an avatar of God, even as a baby, but I had always thought of that love as love for the Father.
ReplyDeleteIt's a generous turn to love the Baby Jesus as a helpless infant, and it casts the loving one as a protector of God. I find this role reversal delightful and mystifying and I take back my initial thought that it was itself child-like, even if it may have been offered that way by the student who wrote it down.
Maybe we could all be magi.
(Trust me when I say that I didn't expect to end up here!)