Mar 18 | Canticle (Lenten Music Reflection #4)

During a prayer meditation in one of my seminary classes, I was consumed with a powerful mental image of chasing a beautiful woman in a white dress through a field. She was laughing – this was a game! We were playing a lover’s game. She had come to my window and beckoned me outside, and now I had to catch her. She wanted to be caught, but she wasn’t going to make it easy for me.

This image didn’t come from nowhere. We had learned in another class of the early rabbis describing the Torah as a woman who playfully sought to be pursued in this way.

For all of the challenges I have with Scripture, I cannot shake this image of her from my mind.

She wants me to understand. She wants me to want to understand.

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