September 27,  2022

Reflection

CUTS AND SKIN

Cuts tell us we are human.

We bleed - red blood is our mighty Mississippi, our Hudson, our Nile, our Amazon, our Danube, our Mekong, our red rivers flowing through our body.

Cuts tell us that blood flows within.

Our skin is the largest organ in our body.  We can tap our toes and feel it.  We can wiggle our ears and feel them moving. Some can do that better than others.

We can scratch and pick and itch and pinch our skin.

Moles and lumps, splotches and pimples - pop up on our skin - in all sorts of places.

In the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the bride to her horror gets a zit on her face - on the morning of her wedding.

Surgeons cut our skin to get inside - or we hope they keep coming up with more non-invasive ways to get to our vitals - inside the packaging of our skin.

Cuts often happen without our being aware of them. We bump against something sharp. We bite a piece of loose skin on our lips or fingernails edge.

Jesus was nailed, beaten, crowned with thorns, and stuck with a spear,

Bleeding blood....

Jesus bled.

Jesus was cut.

And we know the experience, the metaphor, the hurt of being cut, speared, nailed, crowned with hurts from others - from others who want to cut us out of their will, their control, cut us out of their lives, etc.

Cuts tell us we're human.