Though I have been wary of stories of Jesus' childhood, due to the excesses of non-canonical early sources, I wanted to read this, not the least because of the wonderful spiritual journey of the author. I was not disappointed.
Reading with care and reminding myself often that this was fiction, not holy writ, I benefited a great deal. Surely this child was a special child and surely God delighted in him in a way we can only imagine. We see his parents protecting him with God's help, teaching him with God's help, and we see the community and synagogue and villagers having a hand in his growing up.
How soon he began to amaze those around him we can only speculate, but surely there were flashes of light, signs to his parents and to others, and even, as the book purports, signs to the young boy. Surely Anne Rice is correct that the boy himself gradually answered the question we all are faced with: Who is this Jesus?
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