She calls me Goliath and I wear the David mask
I guess the stones are comin’ too fast for her now
You know I’d like to believe this nervousness will pass
All the stones that are thrown are building up a wall

I have become cumbersome
To this world
I have become cumbersome
To my girl

I’d like to believe we could reconcile the past
Resurrect those bridges with an ancient glance
But my old stone face can’t seem to break her down
She remembers bridges, burns ’em to the ground

I have become cumbersome
To this world
I have become cumbersome
To my girl

Too heavy, too light, too black or too white, too wrong or too right
Today or tonight, cumbersome
Too rich or too poor, she’s wanting me less and I’m wanting her more
The bitter taste is cumbersome
No, yeah, no-no, no
No-no, no, yeah

There is a balance between two worlds
One with an arrow and a cross
Regardless of the balance life has become
Cumbersome

Too heavy, too light, too black or too white, too wrong or too right
Today or tonight, cumbersome
Too rich or too poor, she’s wanting me less and I’m wanting her more
The bitter taste is cumbersome

No, yeah, no, no, no
No-no, no, yeah
No-no, no, no, yeah
Your life has become cumbersome

–Seven Mary Three, “Cumbersome”–

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THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK…
YOU ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS.
–Galatians 3:28 (ESV)–

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Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice, More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel (InterVarsity Press, 2000). They were pastors in the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in the 1990s when it was firmly against gay marriage. Since then, it has drifted to a more liberal position on the LGBT issue. For this reason, I wouldn’t recommend getting involved with that denomination.

Josephus, Antiquities 2.10. “While Moses was uneasy at the army’s lying idle, (for the enemies durst not come to a battel,) this accident happened; Tharbis was the daughter of the King of the Ethiopians: she happened to see Moses, as he led the army near to the walls, and fought with great courage: and admiring the subtilty of his undertakings, and believing him to be the author of the Egyptian success, when they had before despaired of recovering their liberty; and to be the occasion of the great danger the Ethiopians were in, when they had before boasted of their great achievements, she fell deeply in love with him: and upon the prevalency of that passion, sent to him the most faithful of all her servants to discourse with him upon their marriage. He thereupon accepted the offer, on condition she would procure the delivering up of the city; and gave her the assurance of an oath to take her to his wife: and that when he had once taken possession of the city he would not break his oath to her. No sooner was the agreement made, but it took effect immediately: and when Moses had cut off the Ethiopians, he gave thanks to God, and consummated his marriage, and led the Egyptians back to their own land.” This should end the debate and confusion of Bible commentaries on Numbers 12:1. Moses apparently had more than one wife during the Exodus unlike it plays out in the film The Ten Commandments. He had married Tharbis, a black woman, an Ethiopian princess, who had become attracted to Moses during his war against her father. He had married her long before the ten plagues of Egypt happened. The fact that Miriam was punished by God with leprosy, a horrific skin disease, in Numbers 12:10 suggests to me that a skin-based racial mindset was at the bottom of why she began to “talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife” (v. 1).