A Motherless Child
Terach
begets Abram (11:26)
Holy Scriptures words, like sunbeams, come from a
source more powerful than we can imagine. The words can guide, nourish or burn
us. To remind us how awesome these words can be, I’ll put them in italics.
I’ll use the present tense when I translate the
Hebrew. I hope it’s finally safe to feel
the challenging events from my past are happening now. I pray re-living our
past may move nightmares to fuel dreams.
Many readers and listeners believe these sacred words
will make their life better ‘n better ‘n better in every way every day. I pray
my interpretation will not disappoint anybody.
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Terach
begets Abram (11:27).
We’re told twice, in two sentences right after each
other, that Terach begets me. Is Terach
protesting too much? Is he terrified he
might not be my begetter?
It appears I might have been begotten
miraculously. There is no mention of my
mother. Why has she been disappeared?
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For ten generations after the Flood, men get all the
credit for begetting. Men were like
their God, who claimed to have created the heavens and earth all by Himself.
Were men traumatized by women because they could not forget that Mother Earth
drowned almost everyone?
Perhaps if men did not look at a woman, they would be
able to mate without drowning? Is this why no women had a name for ten
generations before I was born. Even
Noah’s wife was just called “Noah’s wife.”
I imagine Terach closing his tent flap to keep out
any light after he enters. He closes his
eyes to hide in the dark within the darkness.
He gropes until he feels a sheepskin covering a body. He puts the sheepskin over his head to feel a
bit more comfortable in this void.
He searches with his calloused hands until he finds
the place where two legs join. He pokes his erect wand until it opens a hole.
And so, in a black hole, I am begotten.
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