To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward.When they're at F, God calls them to G.When we're at L, God calls us to M.And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.