Bible-Half-Hour in Gathering

Monday

Some Ways Readings Open

Dis-accreditations:
—I neither read nor speak in Hebrew.
—I dutifully recognize the sense of the changing consensus of modern Biblical Scholarship, and I move in and out of their responsible findings. But I am not a Biblical Scholar. And you don’t get to be one just by reading in translation.
—Biblical translation works like an honest and humble return to the ear of the people.
—I do translate Early Quakers text form a peculiar 17th Century English that I have immersed myself in, into the best I can provide for my Spanish Speaking condition. I don’t translate alone.
—The sense of the meeting: Don’t translate alone, Don’t read defining stories alone, trust that the Spirit speaks to those who read themselves together.
The call to the Gathering, and a tantrum yields to a reading that touched my condition.
The first re-staging or grafting in the remembered story: Frozen into In-Action between Pharaoh's Army and the Open Red Sea.
Way Will Open, As It Has Always Opened…
The paralysis that I re-membered as part of the story is not really in the text; but the scene and the specificity of my immersion in the story, and the grafting of the story in the condition of the reader is how the Spirit opens eyes and ears and heart to reveal other things that are in the text: I am not talking about “the meaning” in the text, I feeling the tissue of the story making the heart pump, and saying that the best I can.
Margaret Fell’s call “out of Egypt.”

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