Luz: book i: comings and goings (Troubled Times 1) by Luis Gonzalez

Author:Luis Gonzalez
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Burnt Copper Press
Published: 2015-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

CONCEPTIONS

A sister! Did I hear correctly, Father? I’m going to be having a sister? Why didn’t you say anything earlier, Father? Why didn’t you tell me?”

It was a beautiful night in the Heavens. A stunning but solemn celestial night. Glowing winds soared through the stratosphere. Galaxies far and wide shone in spiral incandescence. In all the infinite vastness of the universe, there was nothing as glorious as the radiance of outer space. Nothing as exalted as its luminous panoramas, or as soothing as its lustrous sweep of astronomical delights. But despite the grandeur and serenity of all this weightless splendor, the Creator of the Universe appeared baffled by his son’s barrage of questions.

“Why, Son, I just assumed you already knew. I mean, you are the Son of Man, aren’t you? That means you know everything I do.”

If the Son of Man could tell by his father’s tone he was being toyed with, he was in no mood for games right now and made it perfectly clear with his own tone—an angry one!

“No, Father, it doesn’t mean that, and you know it! There’s plenty you keep from me, plenty I don’t know! And please, Father, if I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Do not call me the Son of Man anymore! You know I can’t stand that name! You know how much I hate it.”

Off in the near distances, Earth and her companions spun and orbited in quiet contentment around the tiny halo that was the sun. But off in the far distances, swirling galaxies tossed and turned; clusters of constellations formed towering volcanoes and giant pyramids lit up the skies. Despite the exhilaration from these invigorating views, the Creator of the Universe managed to keep Himself calm and constrained. The Son of Man was simply baiting him, but He would not take the hook. Not with tensions as strained as they had been lately between Father and Son.

“But Son, how can you hate that name when you were born for man’s sake? When you were born to save him from his sins and offer him salvation? You know that, Son, just as you know you can’t escape your destiny.”

The Son of Man had no interest in any lectures right now. He’d been hearing the same outmoded sermon for the last two thousand years. Normally, he acquiesced to his father’s notions and even bent to His will. But not tonight. Tonight the Son of Man was all charged up. He felt the eruptions of a thousand solar flares stirring within him and felt like challenging the Creator’s views.

“His sins, Father? Man’s sins? How about Man’s stupidity? How about his selfishness? Or how about his complete lack of conscience, Father? Man has absolutely no conscience. Who’s going to save him from himself, Father? Who?”

“Well…you are, Son, and you know it.”

If the Son of Man didn’t like being toyed with, he liked it even less when the Creator took a condescending tone with him.

“No, Father, I will not! I tried it once and it didn’t work, and I’m not trying it a second time.

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