The question has to be asked: Did Moses respond to God encountered seeing the burning bush....or something else? At the burning bush Moses is told to "put off your shoes". As Christians we are told we wear "the shoes of the Gospel of Peace", so Jesus Lord and King of the Jews wears the shoes of the Gospel of Peace, why "put off your shoes?". The history of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob had been a history of Peace. Shepherds, and when entering Egypt led by Joseph honored and giving high station. As sons of Noah surviving The Flood they lived under The Promise of God, destruction would not come again to the world by flood. But from Moses forward the Hebrews become a people who are trained for military authority and violent taking of land to claim as their own. Could the voice from the burning bush not have been God, but another? One that only shows it's "back side" and not it's face? One that leads it's subservient stranded in the waste...
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Two things happened today which need my commitment to written word. First, following my failure of social grace at work yesterday I spent several hours of reflection upon how to apologize to my fellow employee Felix. I had injected myself into a conversation he was having with another employee, about yet a third employee. It angered Felix and after sleeping on it and thinking about I came to the realization that I have been self-absorbed and rudely injected myself into Felix's conversation. Completely failing to recognize his private space. Failing to hold my opinions until a time and place where I could voice them to the other employee, to whom they pertained. I am ashamed and hoping to ask Felix formally for his forgiveness. Secondly this comes upon this 8th day of April 2026 which I realize is just two weeks past what would have been the 50th anniversary of the first marriage I entered with Eileen McAfee-Kendig. The realization brought home to me that the blessing that wa...