How Could He Not Know

He’s not sure why He’s so surprised. After all, He is all-knowing. He has a reputation for envisioning what is going to happen before it happens.  But that reputation is misguided. All He does is put things in motion.  He leaves the actual execution up to His beloved worker bees. “Free Will” is how He remembers it. Sometimes they perform extremely well and other times, well, let’s just say not so much.  He provides the tools but they provide the sweat and manpower.  He has a general sense of what’s supposed to occur from a mountain top view but as the saying goes, the devil is in the details.

His work ethic is incomparable.  24/7, 365 days a year He is steering the ship, manning the lifeboats, hanging the moon, polishing the stars and nudging the throngs along through their weary days.  And yet there are still moments that take Him completely by surprise and He questions Himself.  How is He, as powerful as He is, suddenly caught off guard by their human emotion?

When He worked out the plan, He knew that the people involved were going to complicate things but He was hoping for the best.  What He failed to realize was their effect on each other.  He was thinking strictly in terms of Him and them – not them and them.  Obviously, relationships would be built in order to get the job done but ah, that is where His plan veered off the road a bit.  Passion, commitment, determination, responsibility and love.  These were all admirable traits He hoped to find in His creations, but it is the depth of these traits that He underestimated.  

How could He not have known how absolutely hollow one of them would feel on the loss of a battlefield comrade?  How did He not know the oceans of tears shed by a mother on the loss of her child?  Why would a split-second heroic sacrifice of one life to save another shock Him to his core?  He expected a certain level of rule-breaking would creep into the mainstream of their lives but the intensity of their love for each other left Him overwhelmed– and that is not easy to do.  He had no idea how much they would depend on each other, intertwine their lives around each other and in the end love each other so profoundly.

  So, if He could do it all over, would He?  Would He change it so only their surface would be scratched and not their entire being?  Would He step in and take control so to avoid any sadness and despair later on? Would they really rather He replace their intensity with indifference? 

  No, He would not change a thing.  Their deepest lows were often the result of their highest highs and He could not take those away.  They are the stuff of life – the life He breathed into each of them on the day they were created.  Yes, He may have missed the mark on just how much they would sacrifice for each other, how fiercely they would love each other and how deeply they would mourn each other’s loss, but He too cries oceans of tears with them and for them. So, He will continue to be surprised by them and at those moments He will be there to love, comfort and protect them, His children, and He vows to them that one day He will wipe away every team from their eyes and by doing so, His own.

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