2.3.11

You wait.
You hope.
You wish.
You pray.
That someone notices you.
And takes you.
And makes you useful.
As you yourself are wont to use.
Enough of your sad stories.
Just mind your strokes.
Right now,
I need the lullabies
your hands sing.
Let me take off.
Let me fly.
Let me
slide
into one
restful
sleep.

And let’s talk about the
“other things” –
your extras
later.

(Repeat 4x) *

* 1,2,3,4


REFLECTIONS
Leviticus 20-23

Of Holiness and Feasts

Leviticus 20:7
Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

It makes me feel awkward having to write this and having to write the note above. The irony about being holy is that you know you want it, you like your life to be defined by it, you want to give credit to your relationship with a holy God, and yet you hold on to a large shed of your humanity.

In spite of it all, the Holy God counts you as His – separate, consecrated, redeemed.


Leviticus 21:5
Priests are allowed to marry – but not to a prostitute or a divorcee.
But are priests allowed to be gay?

Leviticus 21:18-20
No man who has any defect may come near (to offer the food of his God, that is): no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; 19no man with a crippled foot or hand, 20or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.

Does this mean, only physically perfect people could come?
What made these people defective?
Why were they born that way?
Sin?
Whose?