Chapter 3 March A Long Tradition About Running Away

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden.Moses asked his brother to be his spokesman.Jonah jumped into a boat and was swallowed by a whale. Humans love to run away from God.This is tradition.So maybe I'm just following tradition, and I've been avoiding Oberth since I learned to walk.louis.Of course he is not God, but in my eyes, he is the most God-like person, he is a saint, a man in cassock, a big boss, a rabbi chief.My parents have been in his congregation since I was a baby.I sat on my mother's lap while he preached. However, as soon as I found out who he was he was a man working for God and I ran away.I bumped into him walking towards me in the corridor, and I must have run away.If I have to pass outside his study, I will quicken my pace.Even as a teenager, I would duck into the hallway whenever I saw him approaching.He is tall, 183 cm.I feel small in front of him.Every time he looks down through his black-rimmed glasses, I assume he sees all my sins and flaws.

So I run away. Run until he loses sight of me. These were the things I thought about as I drove to his house the morning after a spring storm in 2000.A few weeks ago, eighty-two-year-old Louis made that strange request to me in the hallway after I finished speaking. Will you help me write the memorial? When I heard it, I stopped.No one has ever asked me that.No one ever mentioned it, let alone a religious leader.He was also smiling as people greeted each other, as if he was just asking a perfectly normal question.I replied in a low voice, saying that I need time to think about it. After a few days, I called him.

ok, i said.I agreed to his request.I will speak at his funeral but only if he lets me know him as a person so that I can introduce him from a human point of view.I estimate that this will require several face-to-face meetings. agree.He said. Turning a corner, I came to the street where he lived. Before that day, I told Albert.Lewis knows nothing more than an audience knows a performer: the way he speaks, the presence he carries on stage, and how he mesmerizes an audience with his commanding voice combined with his dancing gestures.Yes, we did get close at one point.He taught me when I was a child, and he also presided over important ceremonies in our family as a priest, like my sister's wedding and my grandmother's funeral.But, for the past twenty-five years, I have been very estranged from him.Besides, what does the average person know about the person who presides over his religious services?You listen to his teachings, you respect him, but what kind of person is he in life?This Oberth.Luis, to me, is like a king out of reach.I have never been to his house for dinner.Never interacted with him in ordinary social situations.If there were any flaws in his personality, I had no way of discovering them.What are his personal hobbies?I have no idea.

Well, it can't be said that I don't know at all.I know he has a hobby.I know he likes to sing.We teach everyone to know about it.When he preached, every sentence could become an aria.When talking, he may sing nouns or verbs.He was a little Broadway show in his own right. In his later years, if you ask him how he is doing, he will squint his eyes, hold up his finger as a baton, and sing softly: ∮ The gray-haired old rabbi, Can't compare to the past, Can't compare to the past I hit the brakes.What am I doing?I'm not fit for the job at all.My faith has become less religious.And I don't live in this state.He's the one who should be speaking at the funeral, not me.Who wants to write a sacrificial text for a person who specializes in publishing sacrificial texts?I'm tempted to turn the car around and make up an excuse.

Humans love to run away from God. I took steps in the other direction. ① These are all stories from the Old Testament. "Genesis" mentioned that after Adam ate the forbidden fruit, he felt naked and ashamed to see others.God was walking in the Garden of Eden. When Adam and his wife heard it, they hid behind a tree. "Exodus" said that the angel of God appeared to Moses in the burning bush, asking him to meet Pharaoh and lead the Israelites out of Egypt.But Moses was worried that he was not good at eloquence, so he kept making excuses. Finally, Jehovah had no choice but to allow him to take his eloquent brother Aaron with him. In the Book of Jonah, God told Jonah to go to Nineveh to warn the evil-doing residents that destruction was imminent.Jonah resisted and fled. He was thrown into the sea by a storm, and was swallowed by a big fish. It was not until he prayed and repented that the big fish spit him out on land.