Yours Truly 2017 / Cascadia College / Bothell, WA 2017 YT Online Book | Page 83

Child of God
Jenna Fox
From pulpit and pews they say:
“We are all adopted into God’s family,”
And I say:
“No.”
“Jesus,” they continue,
but I put up my hand, because Mary was:
Too poor, and
too brown, and
too young, and
too uneducated.
Not to mention,
too unmarried.
But with delight she nursed her
godly biology from those
brown teenage breasts.
Jesus’s Father, always in the picture,
Supportive step-father in Joseph.
That, is NOT
an adoption story.
They stumble backward into the
Torah, and say:
“But surely Moses,
he was an adoptee,”
and I say:
“If my adoptive brother
came home with plagues of
frogs, or
locusts, or
sores, or
darkness,
and,
if he reunited with genetics in an
Uprising,
drowning his adoptive tribe,
My parents would not be pleased.
Would not call that an
adoption success.”
Connecting to God is like:
shaky hands on a June evening,
dialing a number and saying:
“I was adopted in 1982,
and have reason to believe that this man is my
Father.”
Connecting to God is like:
hearing the Booming response:
“What took you so long?
I carried a picture of you in my
wallet since the day you were
born.”
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