Thank you for this reflection. I remember being a kid and loving this chapter because of Gideon's bratty willingness to push back when the angel appears and says that God is with Gideon. In the Message translation, Gideon's response reads, "With me, my master? If God is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all the miracle-wonders our parents and grandparents told us about, telling us, 'Didn't God deliver us from Egypt?' The fact is, God has nothing to do with us--he has turned us over to Midian." As a bratty teen myself when I first read this, Gideon's put-up-or-shut-up attitude really appealed to me.
You are really into it, my friend, digging deep, swinging wide, and opening up the tell with it shards, hints, and ambiguities. I'm loving it.
It happens that my middle name is Asher and that that name has inspired my own complex mytho-poetical ancestry. I feel my link to the the tree cults of Canaan and beyond to the sacred warrior feminine in Ishtar. According to Jacob, Asher is to be rich in bread and royal treats, an unusually happy prediction among or his mostly less favored siblings
Dear Peter Asher - He Who Hails from the Ashera and other Fertile Divine Sources... Did you know that Asher's totem is the vast tree? that tribe's legacy is rooted not only in the sacred tree of the Ashera/Ishtar but also in the Hebrew word for JOY - Osher. Giddy on...
Thank you for this reflection. I remember being a kid and loving this chapter because of Gideon's bratty willingness to push back when the angel appears and says that God is with Gideon. In the Message translation, Gideon's response reads, "With me, my master? If God is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all the miracle-wonders our parents and grandparents told us about, telling us, 'Didn't God deliver us from Egypt?' The fact is, God has nothing to do with us--he has turned us over to Midian." As a bratty teen myself when I first read this, Gideon's put-up-or-shut-up attitude really appealed to me.
You are really into it, my friend, digging deep, swinging wide, and opening up the tell with it shards, hints, and ambiguities. I'm loving it.
It happens that my middle name is Asher and that that name has inspired my own complex mytho-poetical ancestry. I feel my link to the the tree cults of Canaan and beyond to the sacred warrior feminine in Ishtar. According to Jacob, Asher is to be rich in bread and royal treats, an unusually happy prediction among or his mostly less favored siblings
As for Gideon, he makes me giddy with disgust.
Dear Peter Asher - He Who Hails from the Ashera and other Fertile Divine Sources... Did you know that Asher's totem is the vast tree? that tribe's legacy is rooted not only in the sacred tree of the Ashera/Ishtar but also in the Hebrew word for JOY - Osher. Giddy on...