And He said, "I will hide My face from them…”
Yes.
No.
I don’t know.
Those are the three answers
my students used to give me when
I’d asked them if they believed in God.
The followup question, after they
filled those three columns, was always
who’s right?
This led to an hour long conversation
in which nothing was decided and thus
mimicking how our government works.
It gets more complicated, when
in the second to last chapter, of the entire
scroll of chapters full of reminders
to do what were told by the
Grand Teller of things to do, he/she says
I will hide My Face from them.
The future is foretold in which we will
have strayed and God will not be around
to consume anyone with fire.
Thousands of years later we’re
struggling to see signs of the flames.
Why do what we’re told when
the face of the Teller is hidden?
It used to be, no one would dare to think,
let alone say out loud, no, or I don’t know,
or even maybe. It was always a
resounding YES, even if we decided to
take our own path.
Either the Face has been hidden for so long
or we forgot how to see it. If you’re at all skeptical
May I suggest you look into the face
of any other human being?
If you tune your eyes right,
what is hidden is not.