To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

by Jedidiah Jenkins

If God exists, He’d want a relationship with His creation. Right? And if so, He’d have to anthropomorphize Himself, or else He would be completely unknowable. He’d have to stoop to our level, express Himself in a way that we could understand. Okay? So if He did that, anything He did would look too small for Him. Indeed, it might look made up. And the story of Jesus is the story of life, sacrifice, death, and rebirth. This story is told in nature. The seed falls to the earth and goes into the ground to be born again as a tree. The caterpillar dies to become a butterfly. Every day the sun must submit to death and night before morning can come. Maybe the Christ story is God’s humble way of reaching out to us, saying things a little too plainly, even brutishly, in order to have a relationship with us.