Jesus the Father

I’ve been thinking about Mosiah 15, a sorta mystical chapter about how Jesus is both the Father and the Son.  About the atonement.  And about Christmas.

Children always like stories of when their parents were little.  They eat them up.  They like stories of their parents doing cool stuff a lot, but stories about when their parents were little even better.  I wonder if this has something to do with the popularity of Christmas.

Jesus being born is a fatherly role because showing your children the way is a fatherly role.  Jesus atonement is a fatherly role because claiming a relationship where someone’s successes and failures affect your deeply is a fatherly role, especially if you then claim responsibility to step in to right the failures.