Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: "Plunge Yourself Into Obscurity:" The Hidden Years of the Boy Jesus for Sunday, 27 December 2009; book review: Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome by Anthony Everitt (2009); film review: The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009); poem review: *From God Christ's Deity Came Forth * by Ephrem of Edessa.