Psalm 45
Annunciation - Year A
This version of an annunciation to Mary of a child to be born has the great benefit of being sensual. Enough of a magical virgin birth. An annunciation without a love song isn’t worth hearing.
The sterility of a transaction and made-up creed pales in the face of a basic beauty of sexuality.
If hormones are not blessable, no part of creation is.
Listen to Chris Smither’s song, “Origin of Species” to hear about G*D’s “unfolding plan” to make DNA for all, “from paramecium right up to man”. Chris, filling in for Gabriel, announces for G*D,
The sterility of a transaction and made-up creed pales in the face of a basic beauty of sexuality.
They’ll have sex
And mixed up sections of their code
They’ll have mutations ...
The whole thing works like clockwork over time.I’ll just sit back in the shade
While everyone gets laid.
That’s what I call
Intelligent design.
Whether through the instantaneous or some eon-long version of Isaac Azimov’s foundational psychohistory, a G*D worth its/their salt can raise up bones and stones and can do the same with any and everybody. We need to tell a new story that you and I and all carry dominant Messiah genes. May yours be seen and may you announce those you see.
As found in Wrestling Year A: Connecting Sunday Readings with Lived Experience
Verses 4–5 bring us a deep divide in our spirituality. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way for more than individuals to come to grips with the tension between our better and worse tendencies.
Glorious and triumphant, ride on
for the cause of truth, gentleness and justice;
let your right hand show marvellous deeds.Your arrows are sharp,
the enemies of the king lose heart;
nations fall beneath your feet.
[The New Community Bible]
In no time at all we find our ideals of truth, gentleness, and justice brought low by domination of those who are not us. We are even ready to leave our ancestors behind in favor of the power of sons for generations to come—“In the place of ancestors you, O king, shall have sons; you will make them princes in all the earth.”
While the definition of beauty shift from time to time within a culture and between cultures, the thrust here is boys are powerful kings and girls are beautiful queens who beget more powerful boys to become kings.
Remind yourself again about “truth, gentleness, and justice”. How will you practice that in a culture for whom it is happy talk, not intentional implementation?
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