The Program

The final act of creation was not the resting, but the cutting.

God had to finish what he started. But this meant displaying

an attribute as yet untested; God would have to be stern. So

with the eyes in the back of his head he saw them take and eat:

sweet to them, bitter to him. And it had to be that way if they

were ever going to get with the program and grow up. Then

God crossed his arms in the displeasured-affection of fathers

and sent them off with the skins on their backs. Little did they

know the forbidden fruit was laced with an elixir of grace, the

dominant feature being to distract attention, to console and

to sooth. No matter how far time carried them God’s children

would be forever haunted by what off-to-the-side theologians

would later come to refer to as the gustus dei – the taste of God.

 

 

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