'...to not turn away from your own flesh and blood ..'

Ok, so i went to the park with a certain mr.g-friend. I have a wee-wun (please refer to him as such, as he has made no decision to go public about his identity just yet), who is just over 1 year old. If you are not of the parental variety, 'talking' at this age is one of those 'some do, some don;t' things. Mine does, but is limited to 'mama', (but dada was said first), boidie (birdie, with a strong bronx accent), buoch (perfectly pronounced, german for book - !) ... the list goes on. Today mr.g introduced a new word to the wee-wun ... Apathy. Three syllables.(it was a fun arvi mr.g!)

APATHY: an absense of feeling or enthousiasm;
A solution for all the world's problems? apathy: if no-one cares there is no problem ......www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=apathy

What a word ... the wee-wun is not apathetic. he has intense feelings, and infact knows no half feelings, as siobhan reminds me - 'mama' leaving - disastrous; dada leaving - that's OK (that was cheeky, and not accurate, but saying 'dada' first...?); not getting to pause at EVERY bird or dog - disastrous; milch (milk, again in german) - good and right, and necessary at exactly 7 am ... the internal moderator that drives the wee-wun is still developing.

God is not apathetic. And as The Creating Being, the stuff he cares about is inherently important. I think sometimes i treat him like he is apathetic about what i do/think/feel/react/. Nup. he cares deeply.

What does God care deeply about?

And i know he cares primarily about people knowing and being at peace with him and being known by him, but somehow that is profoundly bound up in, us - how we treat eachother, how we lay our lives down to serve the poor, who we treat the least as the greatest, how we forgive, how we ....

And, yes, there is grace. Grace upon grace. But God's grace to us doesn't negate his intense care ... i guess it confirms it.

Just by way of closure, now when mr.g says, 'say apathy', and the wee-wun says 'Ap-al-y', i say, 'what do you say to apathy?', and the wee-wun says,'NO!'

"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry, and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? THEN your light will break forth like the dawn....' Isaiah 58:6-8