simon, the pharisee

poor simon
the pharisee

sitting in judgment

"if he were a prophet
he would know what kind of woman
this is

how can he let her
touch him

let alone, wet his feet
with her tears

such an embarrassment!"

"Simon," He said
" I have something to say to you"

poor
self righteous simon

caught
in the tangle
of his own

sticky web

 ~Written after studying Luke 7:38-50

I certainly can't be too hard on Simon, however, as I too, can find myself sitting in his seat. Sad, isn't it? How we can manage to even become "Pharisee judging" Pharisees.

Pharisee:
noun

a member of an ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity.
a self righteous person, a hypocrite

flight

she died
yesterday

the young
sweet mother
of two

flew
up and beyond

the shadowlands


"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."  Richard Bach

Thus George MacDonald writes to his daughter, whom he will soon lose to tuberculosis:

“I do live expecting great things in the life that is ripening for me and all mine-when we shall have all the universe for our own, and be good merry helpful children in the great house of our father. Then, darling, you and I and all will have the grand liberty wherewith Christ makes free-opening his hand to send us out like white doves to range the universe.” (The Heart of George MacDonald )