He is safe, not enslaved or fearful like his Hebrew brothers and sisters in Egypt but he appears dislocated and without purpose. For Moses, surely, had found himself in a desert place long before he led his father-in-law’s sheep toward Horeb, ‘the mountain of God’.Īn exile in Midian, he had named his firstborn son tellingly: Gershom (suggesting something like ‘sojourner there’), “because I have become an alien in a foreign land”. ( Exodus 3: 1-12) Not what side of bed he got out of, but what kind of place he was in his deepest self. You have to wonder what mood Moses was in the day he came across an undiminishing burning bush in a desert place. You can also download this article as a PDF Reproduced on StF+ with kind permission of the Methodist Recorder. This article was first published in the Methodist Recorder’s Hymns and Spirituality series, 2015-16. ‘O Watcher in the wilderness’ by Dominic Grant ( Singing the Faith 667)
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