Write About Now

Radar magazine isn’t my only unsolicited subscription. (Perhaps I have a multiple personality who loves to receive mail. Or maybe I just have a tendency to sign up for things and forget. Not sure.)

Whatever the reason, I also receive periodic emails from Dan Gilliam, a musician, artist and author who recently published God Touches with Standard. Last week the email included an excerpt from his new project, a still-in-process book entitled The Journals of Jesus. Here’s a paragraph I particularly liked:

I can’t remember. I know I am supposed to know something but I cannot remember what. There was something before now, something very significant, something supernatural…….I feel ancient in this youthful, 30 year old, frame—ancient as the desert, ancient as the moon, older than the mountains and the seas. In my body I am young. But in my spirit, in my mind, I am very old. I am old. I Am.

The Bible doesn’t say exactly when Jesus became aware of his identity and calling, but I’ve always thought God probably revealed it to him a piece at a time, over time. As always, the incarnation surprises and fascinates me, and I love Dan’s interpretation.

Target’s been selling wrapping paper and artificial trees for weeks already, but this thought kicked off my own celebration of Christmas.