The Great Cover Up

Matthew 1:6-11

And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

She who must not be named - 

The wife of Uriah

aka Bathsheba

carefully disguised

in a genealogy

rooting Jesus

Son of God

firmly

in a line of ordinary

flawed

messed up folk

rooting Jesus

alongside the 

flawed

messed up folk

of every age.

Inviting those 

who would follow him today

to be among

the flawed

and messed up

and especially with those

whose names

have been erased

finding in the eyes of the overlooked

the face of God with us today.