God is [13]

God is a son humbled in competition, who looks up at his father mid-struggle —father poised in hope for a sign of perseverance and fight, the fight of their forefathers, both, against all of history— and winks as if to say, silently, "your words are in me—your most precious labor is complete"; this is not only his boy, his pride looking back at him, but his father's too.