Flight Paths

Contemplate [Jesus'] life for a moment.  Begin at Bethlehem and follow him to Bethany, where, it is said, he ascended to heaven.  That life is blameless, flawless.  He did not lack abuse, denunciation, defamation, persecutions.  Men called him a drunkard and a glutton because he was not an ascetic; they said he "had a devil" because they could not understand how any man would do a thing only because it was right.  Some called him a lunatic; "he is beside himself," they said, because he was unworldly, was what they considered "unbusinesslike," because they, with their selfishness and pride, could not imagine themselves as he did unless they had lost their reason.  Many hated him then, as they do now, because he was, as he is, in the way of their self-seeking and their sins.  Bad men cannot be at rest where he is. 

Man of Galilee by Atticus G Haygood
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