March 9, 2015

THE MOST POWERFUL KING – 

WELL, WITH ONE EXCEPTION

He was the most powerful king in all the world. 

He controlled everything – everything but one thing. 

He controlled the money, the meetings, the agenda.

He controlled everything – everything - except being able 

to get his own baby or any baby to look him in the eye - 

when he wanted them to. This drove him crazy. 

His baby daughter – even when he was wearing his best crown, best robe, best beard had a mind of her own. She would be following the man on the lawn mower going back and forth on their front lawn just outside their big window – or the cat or the dog sitting there on the other side of the big room. He slowly learned: even the biggest, 

the brightest and the best can’t control everything –

and one time there he got the thought: “Is that why Christ came as a baby? Is that why Christ died on the cross."

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2015