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However, he does so with shaking, quaking, smoking of mountains and more of the like. His help is so very large that it spooks them greatly. So, for awhile it appears that he has won their hearts at last. He hasn’t. He has won their trembling obedience. This does nothing to heal their hearts, which drift farther and farther away. I can see that they are estranged from him, even while dwelling with him. Thus his heart, in obedience, retreats for a time. And then he does the unthinkable. He suffers his love for the humans to be assayed and tested and proved. He hands himself over to the humans! He abandons his riches—the same pleasures the humans before had deprecated (in the beginning)—and he takes on the garments of a mere kitchen boy! All along the way he does many marvelous and worshipful adventures, of the sort not expected from a mere kitchen knave. They are the marvelous deeds expected from those born of high and noble blood. Though the humans marvel at his skill and prowess, they explain all these away and hurl insults and abuse upon him the whole way. Of course, he does gain a following, but they appear to their fellows un-credible. For his following consists of more of the like—mere kitchen servants. Among these followers he performs very small and intimate wonders, while being largely stern and awful with all his directives. His followers are particularly disturbed when he informs them of his plans. He will be made to ride through the town in the ass’s cart. But he will not resist. He will hand himself over to this end, of his own obedient desiring. And what is worse, he will demand the same from his followers. “I don’t know what he sees in them,” we may be tempted to think. But whatever he sees, these humans cannot make heads nor tails out of the behavior his passions result in. Yet we, from this strange vantage point, are made sternly aware of the fact that a giant seems to apparently be smitten for these sons of men. Of all the senseless behavior, the actions of one in love seem most strange indeed. It is most strange to the object of that love. It is not so strange to those looking on. The lover cannot see that he is making a fool of himself, because he is not thinking at all about himself. For a time, his behavior confuses the beloved; indeed, it even offends her. But once it is discovered that God is in love, all his behavior is seen in another light. Once we see that he is in love, foolishness becomes something else. It becomes chivalry. And this is not beginning to sadden me. For something within me wishes to numbered among those lucky sons and daughters of men. Something within me wishes to participate, to be the object of such a stern and splendid love. Ours is not the omnipotent despot of a god some had painted him up to be. It appears that ours is, well, he is more like the Humble Omnipotent.
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