Burning bushes happen all the time

…but when should we stop and listen?

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Many of us feel exhausted by the events demanding our time and concern. Far from confined to a calendar that deludes us into thinking that was 2020 and this is 2021, the creeping tendrils of political and social unrest, economic anxiety, and COVID-19 extend out to us …, reach into us …, wrapping themselves around our hearts and minds.

We can only attend to so much at one time.

There is only so much “crisis” we can tolerate.

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At some point, we become exhausted from the repeated pulling of the emergency cord, of the triggering of our freeze/fight/flight system, of the way in which the tension in our brains and bodies crest then fall into a deep tiredness.

The fire extinguisher is out of flame retardant. We have pulled the ripcord on our parachute to no avail. This is the way we operate in a crisis, but you cannot continue to live this way.

The biblical figure of Moses could not continue to live in the midst of crisis either. An adopted orphan, he existed in a sort of in-between state of being a part of Egypt, the oppressors, and a…