Look up and live

Resurrection Sunday is on the horizon, but before resurrection comes honor (Palm Sunday) and rejection, followed by crucifixion, death and burial.  
As we meditate on the remedy for our self-centered choices, transgressions, iniquities, chaos which leaves us with  sin, sickness, and disease, we might compare it to antibiotics, inoculations and vaccines.  People who drink to excess, sometimes wake up and drink “a hair from the dog who bit them.”  They drink an alcoholic drink to remedy a hangover.   Originally connected to the folk remedy for rabies:  hair from a rabid dog was placed into the wound created when the dog bit someone.  Inoculations and vaccines take a small amount of bacteria from a disease and inject it into a healthy human who develops immunity to the disease and never gets a full-fledged case of the disease.  Some inoculations are actually made from dead bacteria or virus.