look BUT don't touch

 We hear this in museums and art galleries. Pretty women in heels and suit jackets walking around wagging fingers at naughty patrons.

But when did these women enter our churches? Who let them in?

The body of Christ (aka the church) has taken this attitude to a new level. I am going to specifically speak about the Dominican Church, and this is just my opinion not fact.

 Here the actually building is respected much more than the body of Christ. Children are appropriately scrubbed and shamed before entering through the doors. Preparing them for long boring services and hard pews. Beautiful things are passed in front of them. Offering plates, Bibles and colorful paper pamphlets. But the attitude is look and don't touch.

I can't help but think of what would have happened if Jesus had had this attitude with us. The woman with hemorrhaging would not have been healed, lepers not cleaned and the blind would never have seen.  

I said it today…

A beautiful little boy that just wanted to hold a picture. "Look but don't touch! Your hands are dirty. Clothes are soaked with mud. DON'T TOUCH!!!" It was just a picture. And then I saw it. My Savior walking through a crowd of Dominicans holding out his perfect clean hand and saying "Come to me, you can touch me!" I envisioned Jesus getting a nose full of mud and laughing as he swooped up this little boy for a game. I will never say it again as long as I live. Always seek, Always touch!

Much love,

emily