And this morning God
All I can think about
is the passage
What forbids me from being baptized Philip?
asks the Ethiopian Eunuch
and I’m sure
Philip thinks
of all of the ramifications
that this person
is of nebulous rank
nebulous gender*
nebulous status
from another country
what authority does Philip have?
But Philip was sent by an angel
to say yes
And I feel like Philip
running alongside chariots
not knowing
what authority
we have
We are in a nebulous
time
knowing things are in flux
being asked hard questions
and I hope
we say
yes
as often
as we can
Because God knows
God is not preventing us
from loving
and including
each other
God’s yes
is strong
even when
we don’t know
And it’s ok
not to know
I don’t know God
that’s my prayer
I just don’t know
Amen
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*Though to be clear that individual, the Ethiopian Eunuch, may have known exactly who they were and what their gender status was, the LBTQIA breadth and depth is beautiful in all of it’s multiplicities
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