The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.”- Genesis 12:1 Abraham and Sarah’s story absolutely fascinates me. Here is a couple quietly making their way in the world. Sarah, filled with grief over her inability to have a child, continues
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by Toni Babcock Recently, I was cleaning an apartment when I noticed an interesting shadow box hanging on the wall. The box framed a collection of broken shards. Each shard was carefully mounted to showcase its shape and faded design. The woman I was cleaning for told me the shards were found in a southwestern
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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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“You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.”               –  Exodus 20:5 I have never understood this verse, never been able to reconcile it. How is it right?
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I hate doing laundry. It is my least favorite household task and I will probably do just about anything to avoid doing it. I can do every load in one day or I can do a little each day; but, no matter how efficient I may be, it is a never ending chore. There are
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“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”   – Leo Buscaglia We have all seen those moments – the time when someone disembarks a plane, makes their way to baggage claim, and runs into a loved one’s arms. It’s touching, endearing,
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