Readings for Trinity Sunday, 5/31/15: Isaiah 6:1-8, Psalm 29, Romans 8:12-17, John 3:1-17 Isaiah 6:1-8: Seraphs certainly are strange creatures! Note that even though Isaiah says he "sees the Lord", it is the other things that are described in detail, not what God is like in God's self. Isaiah expresses a deep sense of unworthiness, "Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips." He doesn't feel worthy to be seeing God. The imagery of the seraph taking the hot coal to Isaiah's lips is very powerful. We read nothing of pain for Isaiah, but it make sense that this cleansing and purifying would have burned him, been painful. That resonates with how we experience being made pure. It takes work and pain. I think of the image of Eustace Scrubb in The Voyage of the Dawntreader in the Chronicles of Narnia, when he is turned into a dragon. His skin must be painfully torn off by Aslan before he is made cl
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