Exodus 23:19 Meaning You Shall Bring the First

The kid is the unwanted thing you have given birth to in your own life, the small unlovely state you did not mean to make. Its mother's milk is your attention, the very thing that keeps a young thing alive. To boil the kid in that milk is to keep feeding the unwanted condition with the notice you go on giving it, warming it and nursing it by dwelling on it.

So the instruction reads inward, as every command does. Once you have assumed the new state, the thing you no longer want is starved by being left alone. The firstfruits brought to the house of God are the first and best of your imagining, given to the awareness of being within you rather than spent on complaint. What a person stops feeding with attention quietly dies. What he keeps looking at, he keeps alive, and that is how the unwanted thing survives long past the day it should have gone.