THAT Sabbath (#PLUCKINGCORNWITHJESUS)

* Jesus pray for me, for #FREEDOM

Maaaaaaaaan, if you ask me from time to time "Tony, boy..WHAT IS U DOOOIN??!!!" My response would be simply....IM PLUCKING CORN WITH JESUS YO!!!
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+------That Sabbath; The Disciples' Reflections On The Day Jesus Let Them Pluck Ears Of Corn

We remember that day, the sun
effulgent, sacrosanct salubrious Sabbath,
when
our lives were seemingly distilled into rows
of stalks, all our hope: the soil
beneath our sandals, our
concerns and intransigent worrying
for tomorrows, for the liberation of Jerusalem,
washed away, almost magically, in
waves of buoyant grain.
When you spoke to us your very words
were shirred. Our hearts reached
out blindly for your promises as if
for husks that pledged
food to our longings like empty
stomachs, sweet and savory kernels
of solace while circumscribed
by oppressive predatory Roman rule –
those crows, wolves, dogs
of hegemonic pagan descent
seeking crops.    
I guess the seedlings were planted
when we first met you as
the Gardener, the Farmer of souls
while fishing with our fathers.
You said to us then: follow me, forsaking
everything, even leaving the embrace
of your families behind; for
the sake of a harvest you led us
into grainfields of uncertainty that
we knew not.
So what is there left for us to do
now that youre gone?
except nurse this fire expectation
in our hearts? Henceforth at night
as we retire, as we close our eyes
and conjure dreams, we recall, and
continue to recall this day when
time stood still….and we blithely
disregarded the longstanding
suffocating strictures of the
Sadducees, the cynicism and doubt
that still threatens to devour us like worms.
It was a gloriously sunny
day, as previously stated, for you
let us abide in your Divine presence
without condemnation walking aimlessly,
plucking ears of corn with smiles
that stretched the lengths of our faces,
laughing as if ascending from this world
into the next. Sickles of exuberance
in our hands, sickles of everlasting
exuberance in our hands.
For the first time in our lives,
we finally felt free.


----------Matthew 12:1-8
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day