Once upon a time there was a god, a very powerful, and well respected god. He was kind and benevolent towards his subjects. He performed his godly duties with aplomb however he often felt there was something missing in his position as deity of all he surveyed. He sat in his heavens and performed miracles, answered prayers, occasionally had fun with volcanoes when he was feeling really bored.
So one morning, just after breakfast, he decided to go and walk amongst his subjects. To become one of them and explored their ways as one of them. So off he went, he walked his domain touching lepers so they may be healed. Touching wrong doers so they may be punished. He spoke to old men about what their lives had meant to them. He spoke young mothers about what their children’s lives meant to them. Sometimes he would shape the future lives of these people depending on the impression they had made with him. He would bring them the things they deserved.
He spent many centuries in that domain, he got married and bore children, just to explore what how his subjects behaved. He enjoyed being amongst them he enjoyed being viewed as powerless. To explore this powerlessness more fully he went to parts that did not recognise him as a god it was a place that had developed to believe in a different god.
One of the first people he met in this domain was a young girl. A girl who had no belief in the divine. Yet was still able to comprehend right from wrong. Moral actions from immoral ones. He spent a lot of time talking to this girl. He watched her life very closely. When he met her she did not have any great strife that he could clear away for her neither did she have any burning desires that he could steer her towards. So in his mortal skin he allowed her to befriend him. She was a confident girl who knew and accepted the mistakes she was going to make in her life. she knew that some of her decisions would be bad and bring about unsavoury results. She also knew that some of her actions would bring about positive results. The most important thing she knew was that she had no knowledge of which of her actions would bring which result. This outlook surprised the god. For she did not seem to be advanced enough in her years to understand such worldly matters. He knew which actions would bring her which results but he also realised that she did not wish to have any comprehension of that. He stood as her friend at her wedding watching the man he knew would bring her so much pain lying as he said he would love and cherish her. He did not change the course of her life because it was her wish to live what it brought.
Over the years this girl’s husband inflicted many a wound, but she always had her friend to come to. She came into his home and he tended to her pain. He provided her with nourishment and fortitude. In time her husband was gone and she sat talking to her friend .he revealed his true identity to her and apologised for not using his powers to ease her path through life for allowing her to suffer such pain.
She looked bewildered and confused, she asked why he was telling her this. Why he felt the need to bring such a topic up. She asked if he thought she had not known about his powers all of her life. she asked if a friend could be a friend without knowing what they were capable of.
In response he asked that if she knew his powers why did she not ask for his help when her life was at its lowest.
‘I did, and you tended my wounds and brought me bread’
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