Advent Day 5
Two quick thoughts:
First, what the heck does this mean?
I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and lack of bread in all your places…
–from Amos 3
OK, I know…cleanness of teeth, as in nothing eat so your teeth were clean. I guess the cultural context just doesn’t carry over the age of dentists. Sometimes the Bible is just weird.
Second, this is a rather interesting juxtaposition in a passage many f us are familiar with even if we don’t realize it:
Those who go out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
carrying their sheaves.
–from Psalm 126
Bringing in the sheaves…what a great thought to add to that, that the sowing of seed is backbreaking, and even heartbreaking labor. And then you have to wait for the harvest to find the joy.