Text: 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33
His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on. What a nightmare, to be left hanging between heaven and earth! I see Absalom dangling helpless, tangled in the tree by his chief vanity. I imagine the fear, the frustration, the loneliness and helplessness of dangling between heaven and earth, knowing more and more surely that my end approaches. Continue reading
Posted in Between the Lines, Lectionary Year B, Sundays after Pentecost
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Text: II Samuel 7:1-14a
Reading Between the Lines
In The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society (Continuum 2007), Jonathan Sacks reminds us that 1 Chronicles 28:3 attributes the building of the temple by Solomon rather than his father David to the fact that David was a warrior and that a temple must be built by a man of peace. But that is not the issue here. In this text the core question is about movement from tabernacle to temple – from the mobile and temporary to the stationary and fixed. Continue reading
Posted in Between the Lines, Lectionary Year B, Sundays after Pentecost
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