2.9.11

Sick.
It does feel terrible when you feel there is something in the body that holds you back from doing what you normally would do in a whiff.
I am sluggish; my nose is blocked and runny at the same time.
I have a headache that throbs.
And this does not happen often.

It feels a little bit whimsical to rest, when I know that if I push myself a little bit more, I could probably do most things that I want finished today.
But the opportunity to rest is here.
So I am grabbing it.



While slouched in bed, I caught an episode of Glee – the one that was submitted to the Emmy for the most emotional performance of the gay character, Kurt. His father was in coma after suffering a heart attack. Everyone in the glee club offered spiritual support but Kurt didn’t believe in God. And it was kind of weird hearing characters mouthing script lines that defy the existence of God. Of course, those were just lines – but to take lightly the existence of God somehow offends me. If only people know, really.

The song numbers were appropriately chosen: “I Look to You”, “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” which, even if it was a cover of the one sung in the film “Across the Universe,” was quite emotional, “Papa, Can You Hear Me?”, “Losing My Religion”, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “What If God Was One of Us?”.

And unashamedly, I thought a shed a tear or two.
I think I should watch more of Glee.


REFLECTIONS
Numbers 15-17

The Sabbath Breaker

Numbers 15:32-36
While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him. Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.” So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.

* A day for the Lord. Repeat, a day for the Lord.

Numbers 15:38-40
‘Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by going after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes. Then you will remember to obey all my commands and will be consecrated to your God.

* What tassels with blue cord must I make to remind me to keep God’s commandments?

The Frustration of a Leader

Numbers 16:15
“Do not accept their offering. I have not taken so much as a donkey from them, nor have I wronged any of them.”

* Let me not rebel against those you have put in authority over me, Lord. I do not want to be swallowed by the ground nor consumed by fire.

How to Ask for Signs

Numbers 16:28-30
“This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea: If these men die a natural death and experience only what usually happens to men, then the LORD has not sent me. But if the LORD brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

* Something supernatural!

* How can such a “chosen people” be so stubborn and hard-headed?
Pretty much like me.