The Child as Son Becoming Father of the Man

          PRELUDE: THE EARTHLY
           DOMAIN OF MAN

From the Lake District poet Wordsworth’s “Father of the Man,”
to the universal Father of all Mankind.
There is a legacy and a promise of divine parenthood.

As it is above in the heavenly realm,
so it is desired below in the earthly domain:
The son reflecting holiness of the Heavenly Father.

In ‘olam ha-zeh,’ the earthly realm,
mankind is by many things made restless.
With children seeking comfort from that one thing which matters most.

An earthly child seeks comfort from an adult parent’s love;
which is his  inherited legacy of the world.
The adult mirroring the child’s mirroring the adult’s cares and worries.

The adult seeing in his own child’s face,
his childhood’s  face reflected.
The man as adult recapturing in the infant his own childhood memories.

And by reflecting on himself as once a child,
the adult finds in this reflected image,
an eternal state of awe and wonderment.

Compelling him with lucid observation,
that he is more than what’s portrayed before him.
That in this child he reflects the past, the present; and the future.

We are indeed much more than flesh and blood.
We are beings capable of reflection.
And this reflection connects us with all things; old and new.

Let this truth sink and dwell in us.
Let it be eternally resident within us.
Let us meditate on it day and night.

“Each of us is  a mirror of someone else’s mirror; reflected back to us.
We are present images reflecting ancient ones;
renewed once more again in future images.”

Shaped and nourished by parental roots,
we’re always in a state of great becoming.
Linking the present with the past and future.

That is the offering of a human seed that’s sowed.
Nourished; in our time to bear future fruit.
Fruit as genesis destined to become fruit for our revelation.

When fruitfully fulfilled at last,
the seed as child, by nature’s own urging,
becomes much more than simply being.

The act of  becoming is indeed much more than that of being.
That is what impels us to our individuation:
To become whole; to repair our brokenness.

Conclusion: “The Child is Father of the Man.”


      POSTLUDE: THE HEAVENLY
      REALM OF THE ALMIGHTY

We see this legacy and promise foreshadowed eloquently.
Our barrenness healed; our brokenness made whole.
In the image and likeness of a special heavenly child.

In ‘olam haba,’ the heavenly realm,
comfort is gained from harmony.
The child sustained by blessed assurances.

A child reflecting all that his father is.
In harmony with the Holy Spirit:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit as One.

This child of heavenly realm as Son of Man.
An Advent Man of Sorrows bringing Peace, Hope, Joy and Love.
Salvation’s joy for humankind.

We can meditate on this in the Gospel of John Sixteen.
In verse twenty one this Man of Sorrows informs us,
concerning how all joy can vanquish sorrows:

“A woman…as soon as she is delivered of the child,
she remembereth no more the anguish,
for joy that a man is born into the world.”

So came one to deliver us.
To offer comfort; freedom from adversity.
A Man of Sorrows offering Joy.

Born to humanity as a lowly child,
to become a risen man,
this child is indeed the Father of Mankind.

And in this risen form of his,
he offers us all redemption.
A joy beyond all human comprehension.

This divine redemptive joy he offers is one of piety.
It binds us to be the keepers of each other.
Ourselves reflected in him and in one another.

Let those then that have eyes now see.
Let those with ears to hear now hear.
Reflect on this, and wisdom will not depart from you.

For this, one came to counsel us.
To be obedient, as he was to his own father.
The child becoming Father of all Mankind.

This is the pious will of the divine realm:
The Son of Man is destined to bear wholesome Fruit of the Spirit.
This special child becoming Father of all Mankind.

As it is above in the heavenly realm,
so it is desired below in the earthly domain:
the son reflecting holiness of the Heavenly Father.

Conclusion: “The Father is the Son of Man.”