Employees must wash their hands after
according to the sign in the restroom.
We all learned how from Doctor Fauci
to wash unclean hands like a Pharisee.
Jesus didn’t care about dirt but what
is within, not clean hands but a pure heart.
What bothered him was the hypocrisy
of the ones who safeguarded sanctity
who narrowed the gates to keep people out
who used their clean hands to refashion
human precepts into God’s law, a blasphemy,
whose clinging to tradition became idolatry.
His concern is the purification
of his followers’ intention
that hands, clean or not, are open
offering undefiled welcome.
Unclean Hands