left behind

"After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem.  Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day.  Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends.  When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him.  After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.  Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.  When his parents saw him, they were astonished.  His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this?  Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”

Why were you searching for me?” he asked.  “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” (Luke 2:43-49)

so they were the ones 

who left him behind 

and then they complained, 

“why have you 

treated us like this?”  

shouldn’t he have 

been the one 

asking that question?  

i guess not much has changed 

in the last two thousand years.