Did Jesus have any free time?

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When someone shows in a brilliant act of love. Dying for the other. Just as poetic as a Shakespearean play: Romeo and Juliet - Romance. That is God’s romantic love for man. To lay down one’s life for a friend. Jesus spent His free-time for our love, our trust in Him. To gain us to Him. Dying on the Cross was for our Salvation. That is how He spent His free-time. It’s hard. I know I find it hard. Would I want to be up there? No. I wouldn’t. Would I want to spend my free-time saving souls? Suffering as that? I sure don’t. But He did.

Most often we think of Free-Time, meaning something not constrained. Was Jesus constrained? Beyond His reality being both God and Man (i.e. the finite existence of God - a mystery and a paradox.) With that, He has more than free-time. He has eternity. But for us mere mortals, we look at it rubbing our heads. Because, can you or me really fathom eternity? We can’t. And won’t until we get there. But Jesus knew. He knew in the form as a finite creature since being a human embryo. Who He was. That’s God in flesh. He has all time, space, and eternity to do as He pleases: that He so loved the world, He sent His only begotten Son.

That’s what God did in His spare time for eternity. It is us mere mortals who have no time to waste.
 
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It depends what you mean by “free time”, for one thing.

Mary of Agreda and Anne Catherine Emmerich could likely fill us in a bit on this matter. Not everyone put stock in the mystics, however. I like them, though, but they’re not infallible, sure, and one does not have to believe a word they say if one is not inclined to.

Perhaps you are meaning some form of recreation.

Obviously before his public ministry, he got to play like any other child, I’m sure.

I think we can call it recreation when Jesus told them they should go off for a time and rest for awhile. That recreation trip got cancelled, though.
 
JamalChristophr said:
Mary of Agreda and Anne Catherine Emmerich could likely fill us in a bit on this matter. Not everyone put stock in the mystics, however. I like them, though, but they’re not infallible, sure, and one does not have to believe a word they say if one is not inclined to.
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The Mystics, well grounded one’s anyways, are tangible evident proofs of what Saint Paul meant by many members, gifts, talents, and treasures. They have a lot of wisdom. Many had a gift of deep devotion to the Sacraments. They are human no less like the bush was still a bush, but nonetheless never consumed in the wake of the fire that sat upon it (i.e. Moses visit on the mountain.)

The mystics give us that. Which is an extraordinary blessing.
 
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Consider even the most fathoming point in the Gospel, the Wedding Feast at Cana. Did Jesus sulk? Was He unhappy? Was He bitter?
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“Look mom, I know you wanna prevent the wedding from going into a complete disaster, but I already had a timeline for revealing Myself…”
(Mary goes to servants)
“Never mind.”
 
well, Mary ; (after her Son was a little bit fresh to Her);

said to the wine people: “Do what He says”

those were Mary’s last recorded spoken words in Gospel
 
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well, l Mary ; (after her Son was a little bit fresh to Her);

said to the wine people: “Do what He says”

those were Mary’s last recorded spoken words in Gospel
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Ha! How would a mother cope in ever trying to speak so much more than a wittier son?

*Finding in the Temple: “Did you not know i am in my Father’s house?”
*Wedding Feast: “What does this got to do with me? My hour has not come.”

Maybe in a really simple way He is saying to Mary, “Mom, I got this handled.” And in the words of Saint Padre Pio, "Pray, hope, and don’t worry. "

In fact, He saw Mary there at the foot of the Cross, wherefore His Apostle Saint John was at her side. And He said to them: “behold your son”; “behold your mother.” Jesus has got it handled. Mary, Jesus saw to that she was taken care of. Nothing left, nothing neglected for her. His tomb was taken care of. His burial. He had many helpers for His mother.

I just think when Mary saw all the people and the crowds following her Son. She knew everything was being taken care of. She could see it. Not one moment of neglect. In fact, I think Mary the Mother of Jesus was Mary Magdalene’s role model as well when Jesus said to Martha: Mary has chosen the better. And this will not be taken away from her.

Yep, Jesus got this.
 
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…well, not if you’re a stickler for Scriptures; we are told that He (Isaiah’s Suffering Servant) did not even break a bent reed… nor speak out loud (yell); so it stands to reason that only what was truly necessary (as with the issue of the Temple courtyards being used for marketing and theft.

Maran atha!

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Yeah… they called hobbies ‘helping around the house.’

Maran atha!

Angel
 
Idle hands - the devil’s workshop !

No one was more free - though - than Jesus.

And He did have 12 guys to help with things -

Not to mention the large group of women who followed along -
 
“God’s love is never idle, for where it exists, it does great things. But if it refuses to work, it is not love.” (Bonaventure’s modified citation of Pope Gregory the Great, Homily 30, n. 2)
 
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