A place not of separation but of encounter

Morning: Psalms 30, 32; I Kings 12:1-20; James 5:7-12, 19-20

Evening: Psalms 42, 43; Mark 15:33-39

Mark writes that, as Jesus died, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.  This curtain had symbolized the barrier that separated the people from what was understood to be the unapproachable holiness of God.  But the life of Jesus showed that the only barrier between the divine and the human is the one we construct.  The Creator is not untouchable or unreachable at all, never was, but dwells here, as near as breathing, within the ‘temple’ of our humanity.  This new temple is a place not of separation but of encounter.