This week we consider the raising of Tabitha (Dorcas), which means gazelle - a graceful little deer, at the behest of Peter, the 23rd Psalm, a reading from Revelations in which the Lamb shepherds his sheep to the water of life where God will wipe away every tear, and the story of Jesus who knows his sheep, protects them, and tells us that he and the Father are one.
We learn more about how we are to feed and care for the Lord's sheep. In "I Should Call No Man Unclean," Daniel Clendenin tells us where Peter stayed after the raising of Tabitha when he had his vision of the unclean animals, which helped the Christians in Jerusalem to accept Paul's mission to the Gentiles - in the home of Simon the tanner, considered impure according to Jewish law.
From "little lambs" to dear little deer-like Tabitha, a disciple, The Rev. Christopher Burkett shows us how we are to minister to and love each other, with the focus on the person and acts of Tabitha, who was raised from the dead in his "Terms of Endearment." Tabitha koum.
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