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- Suzy
- Houston, Texas, United States
- I am a United Methodist minister. I was diagnosed with a recurrence of ovarian cancer in March 2013. I'm writing about my thoughts of navigating all of life in the midst of this recurrence.
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Is there significance in when an offering to the Lord is a male or female animal?
I am sure all the rules and regulations for the various sacrifices were important to the Israelites, but I will be happy when we move on. Jane
I know, me too. Remember this was the holiness code and meant for the priests. It's a little like reading the United Methodist Book of Discipline straight through!
I used to read through these sections and go cross-eyed!
Then one day it struck me that if God almighty, who is described as speaking the world into existence, would concern Himself with such details as hem fringe lengths, then there might be room in His vision for one such as me.
Pretty crazy idea, but it made the passage meaningful for me in that it spoke to the character of God as being one of top-to-bottom attention and concern.
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