Little bunny

I was reading Wes The Runaway Bunny tonight. It's a story of a little bunny who threatens to run away from home. His mother doesn't get alarmed but says she will go after him, no matter where he goes. He becomes a rock on a mountain, she will become a mountain climber. He becomes a crocus in a hidden garden, she will become a gardener. And my favorite, he will become a bird so he can fly away. "If you become a bird and fly away, I will become the tree you come home to."

The illustration is beautiful - the little bunny is flying with these great Ithacus-like wings on his rabbit body and the tree is in the shape of the the mommy rabbit, so gentle and soft and inviting. It's a lovely image - our mother being the place we come to roost, to rest, to nest, to relax and be.

It's also who God is for us. The entire book is an allegory for who God is for each of us in the world, whether it's intended that way or not. No matter where we go or what we become, God is there with us, either coming after us, going to meet us, or becoming whatever it is we come home to.

Even if it's a mommy rabbit tree.