Shelve those, they won't cut it. Exile is time to go back to the drawing board, back to the essential, back to asking basic questions, hard questions, even embarrassing questions, questions that can no longer wait on the back burner. Thank God for exile. Thank God it is the season to be purged and purified. Priest turns prophet.
Priest turns prophet.
His eyes are opened to see an alternative reality from exile's reality. He glimpses that the kingdom of God is at hand. His tongue is loosened in exile so he can speak courageously of a new day acoming. His life is liberated to act and live out as a child of God regardless of all the mean-spirited, negative messages of exile. Priest turned prophet, carried by the spirit to a valley, the valley of bones.