Easter Reflection

Now I can’t be for certain at what age Christ understood his prayers to God his Father. But I would have to reasonably assume it was after the age where he could start forming sentences. And if what I have learned about 1st century Jewish custom is correct, he more than likely experienced some social ostrization as a young child. Which quite possibly could have led to a prayer like this. “Father, why if I am your Son, do people treat me so.” And maybe The Father’s answer was, “My Son forgive them, they know not what they do.”

Now I am not saying this or anything like this ever happened. But the poetics behind the possibility nourish me. Because haven’t we all been that child at one point or another, to ask that question. And the Fathers response to Christ, was Christ response to Us, when we asked him how we should respond to transgressions. Forgive them. This allows for the right road to appear again, the transgression rectified by the transgressed. The Way of Christ makes Right the Path.

Then to bring it full circle on the cross with the Sons Petition to the Father using the same request, makes my heart ache in Gratitude.

And also not the least noteworthy, it would have been then that the Son would have inherited in the Fathers capacity to forgive sin.