Invitation

I gave the sermon in church this morning, my first stab at pontificating. My church only expects fifteen minutes or so, which is good for speaker and listener alike. It being Trinity Sunday I connected the Trinity with the sense of touch, and here is a snippet.

In Exodus 3 we read about Moses meeting God in the burning bush. God calls to Moses and says, 'Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.' We are used to interpreting God's command to Moses as a prohibition, a warning. Moses is instructed to take off his shoes because they are unclean. But what if we read it instead as an invitation? God invites Moses to take off his shoes so that Moses can feel the holy ground with the sensitive soles of his bare feet. Moses hides his face, covering his eyes, but his feet are planted on the real, holy ground. Suddenly, everywhere we tread in bare feet is holy ground. God inviting us to touch with our skin what God has touched, created, moulded. In a shifting world, perhaps our greatest need is to feel that sense of grounding, to know where we are rooted. Touch is holy because it plants our feet on God's created earth, on the dust from which we are formed.

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