30 Days of Liberation Day 29 - For all the drama and fireworks of the Exodus story, it sure seems like the Children of Israel end up right back where they started. When they migrate to Egypt, they are refugees, and when they leave Egypt, they are r
30 Days of Liberation Day 29 - For all the drama and fireworks of the Exodus story, it sure seems like the Children of Israel end up right back where they started. When they migrate to Egypt, they are refugees, and when they leave Egypt, they are r
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30 Days ofLiberation
Day 29 - For all the drama and fireworks of the Exodus story, it sure seems like the Children of Israel end up right back where they started. When they migrate to Egypt, they are refugees, and when they leave Egypt, they are refugees. The narrative is bookended by landlessness, as if to remind us that, in God's world, all of us are ultimately landless: "The land is Mine; you are but sojourners resident with Me" (Lev. 25:23). To live in such a reality calls for kindness, generosity, and radical welcome.
Day 30 - At the start of the Exodus narrative, the Children of Israel are sojourners, and at the end, they are once again sojourners. The only time they are ever settled, they are enslaved. Stability is seductive for its security. Moving from place to place is always scarier, more uncertain. Who knows where we'll end up or whether we'll be ok? But it's pernicious, luring us to complacency and stagnation. Liberation requires taking new steps, however precarious they may be.
An Evening with Carol Rose Thursday, April 13 | 7 pm Kiddush Room Join us for this special Adult Workshop! Take an imaginary journey as we glean from the past, extend into the future & integrate in the present with imagery exercises, a little doodling, cutting, & pasting, plus a melody or chant. Carol Rose is a writer, educator and spiritual counselor. RSVP here.
