“Come away to the mountain!” Yahweh said. And Abraham did it, feeling deep dread, hope hanging dark on a covenant thread – knowing the mount was for sacrifice, blood thrumming out the desperate price of coming close to God. “Come away to the mountain!” It was a call that brought Moses up high forty longContinue reading “Come Away to the Mountain!”
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Resting on the Rock
My Lord, my Friend, my God, you are my solid Rock. All around, beyond your contours, the land is full of thorns and thistles, wasteland where the snakes hide out waiting for prey. But on this granite refuge, sparkling with these tiny glints of mica and underlined with flint, I stand in peace. A treeContinue reading “Resting on the Rock”
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