PAUSE

A reflection on John 8:1-11

 

when Jesus paused. . .

oh the sweet sound

of the word - Pause

 

when he stooped to 

the ground and 

wrote in the dust

 

and the good Yahweh

loving folks who 

wanted to teach him truth

 

dropped their stones

one by one 

beginning with the oldest

 

and with their stones

all the ammunition

their hearts could hold

 

judgement, reactivity

orthodoxy, certainty

self-righteousness

 

I wonder if he was 

making an opening in the 

dusty ground of being

 

that tapped into

the ever-flowing

stream of life 

 

just below the 

thin surface of 

all our reactivity

 

so what bubbled 

up from beneath

were the healing waters

 

in which he

baptized the woman

and Pharisees alike

 

in total acceptance and

essential blessing. . .

all in the sabbath pause

 

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