The Lord showed [Moses] the whole land…and said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob…I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.   (Deuteronomy 34: 1,4, excerpted) Look ahead. You cannot finish the task. Neither are you permitted to
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When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said “Come, make us a god who will go before us.  As for this fellow Moses who brought us out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” Aaron answered them, “Take off
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Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you.  The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day…No one is to keep any of it till morning.” However, some of them paid no attention… they kept part of it until morning, but it was
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In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.  The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and had all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve the entire assembly
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Learning to read the Bible in the present is the key to the prophetic faith.  All of us gathered here today stand at Sinai…Fleeing into the desert from Pharaoh, the escaped slaves covenanted to become a free people by living in a way that established justice as a communion that the moralities of slaves and
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Give over thine own willing; give over thine own running; give over thine own desiring to know or to be any thing, and sink down to the seed which God sows in the heart; and let that grow in thee, and be in thee, and breathe in thee, and act in thee, and thou shalt
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Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. . . To be nothing in the self-effacement of humility, yet, for the sake of the task, to embody its whole weight and importance in your bearing, as the one who has been
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Do what we will, we are never going to be free of mortality, partiality, fallibility and error. . . Because ignorance is thus a part of our creaturely definition, we need an appropriate way: a way of ignorance, which is the way of neighborly love, kindness, caution, care, appropriate scale, thrift, good work, right livelihood. 
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence!” …The Word of God cannot be heard in the noisy world of today. — Søren Kierkegaard Silence is a stern taskmaster, full of angels to be
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The difference between wants and needs is that when I take care of a need it’s satisfied–my need for shelter, food, transportation. But when I take care of a want there’s always one right behind it. As soon as I satisfy one want there’s something else screaming ‘buy me, get me, have me.” –Alternatives for
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