Sitting on pins and needles.
Something is about to happen. Something big. You are anticipating it, you await it. You are sitting on pins and needles.
Now, sitting on pins and needles is not a comfortable thing. I prefer to sit on a chair with nice arm rests, good cushioning and great back support. A chair that is conducive for relaxing and reading a good book. In order for a chair to fulfill its function it needs to be transparent, it needs to make sure that it doesn't let me know that it is there. A chair that has pins and needles as its cushioning just doesn't seem to fit the bill. I wouldn't want to sit on a chair of pins and needles.
"Make for me a sanctuary and I will dwell within them." This is an invitation for the Jewish people to become contractors. To make a place which G-d will be comfortable. "Make me a chair and I will sit on it." Don't make me a chair of pins and needles. Make me a comfortable chair. Make me a transparent chair, a chair that doesn't make me aware of it. G-d invites his people to make him a place which will be transparent and thus be open to his presence.
Yeah, I am sitting on pins and needles. I suspect that my wait will be over soon. I suspect that we, the Jewish people, are nearly finished our contracting job.
(BTW my wife was due to give birth today.)
