I'm often hit by sudden meandering thoughts inspired by everyday happenings. A couple of days ago was no exception - however it was one of my stranger ones and therefore deemed worthy of a blog post!
At work, I was given a whole lamb's heart for analysis, I held it in my hands and turned it around to see which bits I could use. Now I'd held and cut up various bits of animals during biology classes in my schooldays many, many moons ago, but holding this lamb's heart was different somehow.
It was then that I noticed there was a tear in this specimen - I'm told that this is something that abattoir butchers do to all hearts after slaughter - to make sure the animal is really dead maybe? I don't know whether this is true or not, but its certainly plausible.
I looked at this tear and suddenly the words of the prophet Zechariah flooded into my mind:
"They will look upon the one whom they pierced."
And then I thought upon the sacrifice of Christ upon the cross:
"Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world."
Today in Church, we celebrated the Eucharist - and it somehow seemed more real and present to me than it has done for a long time.
Praise the God of the everyday things, Who uses the everyday things to teach us valuable lessons.
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