0009 God's New Year Hangover

I’m wondering – with, I trust, due circumspection with respect to these holy, mighty matters yet with the open mind which He has risked mankind and me with, whether He keeps a tally or even an annual journal of mankind’s cavortings around God’s Christmas… and how mankind approaches God’s seasoned, ordained New Year, His holy, spirited Hogmanay. Does He receive intelligence, flights of angels pushing their way - or unaffected, for who knows? – through cyberspace, the ether, as it was and is and ever shall be, bringing news of how the Good News went down this year; the statistics, perhaps, of how many parents explained this season of infantile blackmail in the name of metaphoric divine love; or whether His Christmas message survived Brussels edicts and Brussels sprouts giving Him a clear week before, in the name of divine justice and equity, laws obeyed or disobeyed, Good and Bad, Virtue rewarded, cause and effect, planning His New Year programme for the world - a catastrophe here, a well-disguised miracle there – just to remind mankind of who’s in charge of those things not covered by your insurance touchingly referred to without a hint of political correctness as ‘Acts of God’…(He passed it over to Natural Law..) Or as some divines assert: powerless, even He, having set the world upon its course, its laws – and love, it’s said – in Genesis I ch. I v. I (and its equivalent of course, in other faiths) , to do aught but sit and watch as the world plays out all this divine comedy with its silent laughs like some old film that’s put on the TV every New Year’s Day; here We go again, maybe He thinks.. or maybe with a gentle smile that’s not forgotten the Paradise of those Who Got What They Wanted regardless of the cost, (for?) at Christmas; the Hell of New Year’s Eve; the Purgatory of a hangover; or maybe He’s laughing fit to burst – they say He got the Dawkins book on Christmas Day.