Lord, your blood and mine are one, untainted.
Your love and mine are one, inseparable.
Your garment and mine are one, immaculate.
Your mouth and mine are one, unkissed.
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
Genesis 22
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(More on my YouVersion Bible)Genesis 2:23 "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
Interesting parallel to God's word in Leviticus 18:6 "man, man, ye shall not approach the flesh of his flesh to uncover their nakedness." and possibly Genesis 9:21-22 "[Noah] got drunk and was lying naked in his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside."
Genesis 9:4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it."
Blood is often used as an indicator of human life. Abel's "blood cries out to me from the ground" and, of course, "the blood of Christ" to prove his humanity.
1 Corinthians 11:3 "But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God."
The brutal subjugation of women runs deep in our society and has existed for al of written history. Will we, women, ever be free?
It's time that the tale were told/ Of how you took a child/ And you made him old/ You made him old
Oh, reel around the fountain/ Slap me on the patio/ I'll take it now
15 minutes with you/ Oh, I wouldn't say no/ Oh, people see no worth in you/ Oh, but I do
I dreamt about you last night/ And I fell out of bed twice/ "You can pin and mount me like a butterfly/ But take me to the heaven of your bed"/ Was something that you never said.
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but him had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead.
Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;
A creature of heroic blood,
A proud, though child-like form.
The flames roll'd on—he would not go
Without his Father's word;
That Father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard.
He call'd aloud:—"Say, Father, say
If yet my task is done?"
He knew not that the chieftain lay
Unconscious of his son.
"Speak, Father!" once again he cried
"If I may yet begone!
And"—but the booming shots replied,
And fast the flames roll'd on.
Upon his brow he felt their breath,
And in his waving hair,
And looked from that lone post of death,
In still yet brave despair.
And shouted but once more aloud,
"My Father, must I stay?"
While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud,
The wreathing fires made way,
They wrapt the ship in splendour wild,
They caught the flag on high,
And streamed above the gallant child,
Like banners in the sky.
There came a burst of thunder sound—
The boy—oh! where was he?
Ask of the winds that far around
With fragments strewed the sea!
With mast, and helm, and pennon fair,
That well had borne their part—
But the noblest thing which perished there
Was that young faithful heart!
Casabianca, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, 1826
