Working priests

After Nehemiah 3:1-32 and Ephesians 2:12-14

Instead of seeing them

in temple or in worship,

I see priests stacking

bricks, carrying stones,

mixing mortar to bind

bricks and stones

together, hands calloused

and dirty, faces of dust

rivered by sweat. I see them

build this wall and perform

an act of worship, the same

as the invisible wall built

with sacrifice, constructed

with redemption. 

Image via Bible Encyclopedia.