The Price

An Army sergeant had recently been transferred across the country to a new base. The family had moved with him, and the military chaplain on the base asked the sergeant’s wife to enroll the children in a religious education program. The chaplain explained that because the curriculum used was standard on most bases, the children would not have any trouble picking up where they had left off at their last post. “It sounds good in theory,” the mother said, “but in practice, it hasn’t gone that smoothly.” She explained that the children had gotten Moses to the Red Sea three times, and each time they did the family was transferred. When they got to the new base, Moses was on the other side, and they never discovered how he got there.

Many of us are in that position: we have yet to discover how we got here. And if we don’t understand that, we’ll miss the point each time we come. We come to…