{"id":41373,"date":"2018-03-23T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T17:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=41373"},"modified":"2018-04-01T07:55:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:55:50","slug":"footwashing-is-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/23\/footwashing-is-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"Footwashing is Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never liked feet. \u00a0Feet are just\u2026nasty. \u00a0Now, I can handle feet in socks and shoes because I don\u2019t have to look at them, but anything with an open toe is over the top.\u00a0 And, no, I don\u2019t have a single, specific reason why feet freak me out. \u00a0I just know that feet\u2014whether they\u2019re clad in flip-flops, $100 s<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41377 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/group-flip-flops-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"199\" \/>andals, or jellies \u00e0 la 1988\u2014are dirty, dusty, and just plain yuck.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you may have noticed an obvious problem with my being grossed out by feet and worshipping in a\u00a0liturgical tradition.\u00a0 You are, of course, wondering how I feel about Holy Thursday, with its infamous pedilavium?\u00a0 This ritual demands bare feet: touching bare feet, looking at bare feet, and points blazing hot lights on the actions of Jesus, who apparently <em>did not<\/em> find bare feet disgusting, but loved this dusty, sweaty, and most unattractive body part.<\/p>\n<p>I can hear about the actions of Jesus and easily rationalize them to myself as \u201csymbolic.\u201d\u00a0 Washing feet is a <em>symbol <\/em>of service\u2014we s<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/res-3.cloudinary.com\/amn\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,h_340,w_727\/footwashing_pxww4t.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for jesus washing feet\" width=\"374\" height=\"175\" \/>hould be servants to one another, and do things we don\u2019t want to do because we want\u00a0to <em>serve<\/em> one another. \u00a0The footwashing tells me that <em>I <\/em>should be the one to take on the chore that no one else wants:\u00a0 <em>I<\/em> should take out the trash this week\u2014<em>I <\/em>should volunteer to be on the committee no one wants to join.<\/p>\n<p>As for the ritual itself on Holy Thursday, we don\u2019t all have to participate in this (nor does the rite stipulate that we must), because it\u2019s <em>intended <\/em>to be symbolic.\u00a0 We could participate just as well by simply <em>watching <\/em>others have their feet washed.\u00a0 But, if we\u2019re wanting the congregation to partake, we could take this ritual one step further\u2014if it\u2019s a symbol for service, we could just as well wash <em>hands<\/em> as <em>feet<\/em> on Holy Thursday night and avoid the whole \u201cfoot\u201d thing altogether\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>I will admit, through a long series of circumstances (most of which have to do with me conveniently needing to serve as accompanist throughout the duration of the foot-washing), I have never had my feet washed.\u00a0 But revealing this liturgically-implicating hang-up of mine is not the point of my story.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had a revelation about footwashing\u2014which is likely obvious to souls more wise and less <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fearof.net\/fear-of-feet-phobia-podophobia\/\">podophobic<\/a> than my own.\u00a0 Footwashing is not about doing something radical (touching someone else\u2019s foot) becaus<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rokasmove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DSC03918.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"Barefoot hike\" \/>e you want to show service, or because you\u2019re a nice person, or even because you love Jesus.\u00a0 Jesus didn\u2019t mess\u00a0around with the abstract.\u00a0 This symbol is real: he washed a foot because that\u2019s exactly what he wanted us to do\u2014love in the concrete.\u00a0 You wash a foot because you love, and you love the specific person whose foot you are washing.\u00a0 Not only would you wash that foot, but you would hold it, you would dry it with your hair, and you would kiss that very same foot.\u00a0 This is, of course, why Jesus\u2019 discourse on love directly follows the footwashing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+13&amp;version=NABRE\">John 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would not have imagined it would be possible to love so much that you would not only w<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41375 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MK-Feet-2-Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"205\" \/>ash, but kiss someone\u2019s feet\u2014until I held someone with tiny fingers and toes, and counted each one to be sure they were all there.<\/p>\n<p>This little one\u2019s feet are not dirty (usually\u2014and if they 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