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This is part of a series of posts based on the Churches Together in England publication one light: one world. If you click on the link you will find the biblical texts. This post of the same name covers the purpose of this series.
Psalm 133: 1 - 3
It must have been the summer of 1973 when I had a vacation job with the Bassets Liquorice Factory in Sheffield. I remember the bacon and egg double decker with tomato dip (in my pre-vegetarian days). It was a wondrous sandwich; a bacon sandwich with a fried egg and one slice dipped in hot tinned tomatoes. The best bit was biting into the egg yolk, which would burst. The yellow goo ran down my chin and set in my beard. Indeed a thing of wonder.
This image of Aaron's beard is both exhilarating and somewhat disgusting. Presumably the oil would stay there for a long time as it's unlikely people often had a bath. Such oil would make the priest smell relatively pleasant compared with others.
But you can feel the priest's pleasure in the poem and the pleasure is the point. It's a positive note to end this series. Unity as a pleasure!
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