Amy! Amy! This is so beautiful! Allusions to Silent Night, Winnie the Pooh, Ecclesiastes?! Who but you could do this? Every year there is at least one moment where the concept of eternal life just shocks me all over again. It's too good to be true! "Discard shrouds forever" encapsulates that perfectly. Thank you.
As an aside, a few years ago I learned there was a word for the women who brought spices to the tomb: myrrhophores (or myrrhbearers, but myrrhophore is cooler, and -phore is the same root as in Christopher, Christ-bearer). Not critiquing your word choice. I just wanted to share. :)
In my book they are! But I don't think I've seen the word used that way anywhere (all the myrrhophore icons I've seen show women at the empty tomb). It seems it was a term in the ancient world for anyone preparing a body for burial with spices. Which, in a way, the wise men were doing, I've always been told--either way, a really cool link between the birth and death of Jesus.
Amy! Amy! This is so beautiful! Allusions to Silent Night, Winnie the Pooh, Ecclesiastes?! Who but you could do this? Every year there is at least one moment where the concept of eternal life just shocks me all over again. It's too good to be true! "Discard shrouds forever" encapsulates that perfectly. Thank you.
As an aside, a few years ago I learned there was a word for the women who brought spices to the tomb: myrrhophores (or myrrhbearers, but myrrhophore is cooler, and -phore is the same root as in Christopher, Christ-bearer). Not critiquing your word choice. I just wanted to share. :)
Myrrophores! I love that! Were the wise men myrrophores, then, too?
In my book they are! But I don't think I've seen the word used that way anywhere (all the myrrhophore icons I've seen show women at the empty tomb). It seems it was a term in the ancient world for anyone preparing a body for burial with spices. Which, in a way, the wise men were doing, I've always been told--either way, a really cool link between the birth and death of Jesus.
This is beautiful!