The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.

What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.

Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for what is most true. To be free we may need to act from integrity, on trust, sometimes for a very long time. Few of us will reach our promised land in a day. But perhaps the most important part of the story is that God does not delegate this task. Whenever anyone moves toward freedom, God Himself is there.

The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

We are all born to be a blessing.

Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.