“Seeing your face is like seeing the face of God.”
So said Jacob in his brief reunion with his brother Esau.
He had, it seems, just seen God, in some form, “face-to-face”
In a biblical wrestling match that ended in an appropriate draw.
Moses was described at the end of Deuteronomy as a prophet
Unlike any other
Because “God knew him/singled him out “face-to-face,”
Another way of saying that God knew him well, or intimately.
The Soul of the Universe was
Inextricably connected to
The soul of a prophet
But not only to Moses.
Some say we all exist within that Soul.
Some say, as Jacob did, that we can, if we try,
See a touch of that Soul in each soul.
Some refuse to do that even when their faith
Teaches them to follow the example of Jacob or Moses.
Seething, simmering hatred
Encouraged by people seeking to expand
their power and control
Spreads like a wildfire
And causes others to forget
That there is a touch of that Sacred Soul
In everyone.
That is when violence and murder
Become too easy an option
And the cost and the fallout
Emotional and communal
Is devastating.
There are souls now seeking freedom,
Having been cruelly and suddenly seized
From their homes and families.
There are souls seeking freedom
That might be attainable
Only when they see the humanity
In friend and in foe.
There is too much blindness to cooperation
And a sense of commonality
That precludes that freedom and the peace that would ensue.
There is, however, still the possibility for
The opening of eyes and hearts and minds
So that we will see one another
Face-to-face
As souls
In the care
of the Eternal Soul
That never gives up hope.
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