unclean, unclean

Thursday February 16th Mark 1: 40 A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, "If you are willing, you can make me clean." Jesus, don’t touch that man, Jesus, he is unclean. If you touch him, you will become unclean. It is not only wrong, it is illegal. Remember Leviticus 13:45-46, The person who has the leprous disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head be disheveled; and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, "Unclean, unclean." he shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp. OK then, so much for all the laws and all those rules, and rubrics and fences and boundaries, and borders we put in place to keep others at bay. Neither Jesus nor the leper listened to the conventional wisdom of the day. They both cross boundaries that were not meant to be crossed. Sometimes crossing those boundaries is crossing from unfaith to faith, from unlove to love, from fear to hope; from self-reliance to relationship, etc… sometimes crossing those boundaries is what is needed in order to see the love of God that surrounds us. What boundaries do you have in place, who is out there and what are they trying to tell you? Every people boundary in your life has Jesus on the other side. Open the door let in those kept out by those fences so meticulously maintained by our satanically inspired prejudice. In our political rhetoric of hate the gays and love god all that God and the world hear is hate God.