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TITLE: A Scarlet Cord, a Monologue | Previous Challenge Entry
By Laurie Kiel
05/23/24
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Protected. Everyone wants to be protected. But it's a scary world out there.

Am I protected from a crazy driver who thinks speed limits are just a suggestion? Am I protected from foolish and greedy politicians who care more about serving their interests, not ours? Am I protected from rampant inflation that is gobbling my money and my hope?

And then I think about the ones my heart aches to protect. The little ones, some still in the womb. The abandoned ones. The ones who think no one cares.

Protected. Protector. And then I think of a woman who was both a protector and protected. I wonder what it would have been like to be Rahab.

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Protection. What kind of protection is there for a prostitute. I'll tell you what kind. My kind. I look after myself. I protect myself. Do I ever protect others? In a way. I keep my mouth shut. I protect their reputations, their marriages. But I think I'm really just protecting myself, my income.

But then came the day two spies came to my house. They didn't admit they were spies of course, but I could tell. And not just any spies, but Israelites that serve the God I had heard so much about! The God who had destroyed the Amorites. The God who dried up the Red Sea.

What fate awaited Jericho? What fate awaited me? I had always yearned for a protector. could this mighty God be MY protector?

I knew what I had to do. Protect those two spies. And I did. I hid them, I lied for them. I kept them safe.

And in return, I asked that they would protect my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them and deliver our lives from death. They told me to hang a scarlet cord from my window and to stay in the room, or we would not be protected.

We followed their instructions. Our city fell around us and we were saved. That scarlet cord protected us.

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That scarlet cord protected us. A scarlet cord of blood streamed from the cross. Jesus paid for my protection. Jesus IS my protection.

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Because of that scarlet cord, that what we are all called to be. No matter how scary the world becomes, Jesus is always our protector.

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