| | DIRTY CHRISTIANITY PART III ______________________________
I love looking at all of the nativity scenes that are set up during the holiday season. They are beautiful. There is something magical and mystical that always draws me to them.
However, the truth is no one really knows what it looked like. But this much I know, giving birth is a gut wrenching and dirty experience. Even in the most sterile of environments it's dirty.
Our Great High Priest entered this world covered in blood.
I am currently re-reading the Torah. There is so much that I don't understand. When a priest is consecrated why do they cover his right ear lobe, thumb and big toe in blood?
What I did take away from my reading is that being a priest is a dirty business. Every day there is sacrifice. At the end of the day you went home a bloody mess. You were tired cause you couldn't sit down. There were fires that could never go out. That meant day and night someone was chopping and gathering wood to feed the insatiable fires.
We are all called to be priest of God. I don't see the image of priest as someone who sits in an Ivory Tower. It's someone who is willing to get dirty. |
| | Posted 12/10/2005 3:38 PM - 36 Views - 10 eProps - 7 comments
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