
When Moses Died
“The lesson of the death of Moses is that life does not stop because one life does.”
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“The lesson of the death of Moses is that life does not stop because one life does.”
“Sacred space is somewhere where a person can feel blessed and where awe and mystery come together in a moment in time.”
After seeing the ‘Dunkirk’, I stumbled upon the saying: Failure isn’t fatal and success isn’t final. Which seemed to encapsulate the feeling that the movie had evoked.
Why was God so hard on Moses and Aaron? What’s the big deal, anyway? Did God change his mind about hitting stones? These are all good questions too, but I suspect the question Moses had was simply, WHY?
This week most of us will seek God in a holy place. But the wise among us will be on the lookout, because wild and untamed holiness is out there beyond the walls and beyond the symbols.
Pentecost invites all of us to place ourselves in the path of the great wind and earth shaking of and by the Spirit, the place of awe and attention to what God wants of us.
Might, at some point in our life, we have some sort of experience of reckoning, of those episodes of blindnesses to our own 21st century forms of idol worship
When is a time you were called to evacuate? What did you regret leaving behind the most? Who turned out to be called to be your guiding star?
It is difficult for me to believe that an all-knowing God would think that poisoning the people would bring about the attitude change God desired.
No matter how thorny your situation is, there is a way out. By looking in the high places, going where others do not go, and by observing whatever is around you… maybe just sheep and some scrub brushes… you can find an answer. Listen, can you hear it?
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