The Story of a Man [Lent 1C]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Deuteronomy 26:1-11 The Story of a Man The man’s eyes welled up with tears at the calming sound of the stream, not another mirage this time, but an actual stream. The blue waters called out to him as if to say, “This place is nothing like the desert.” The desert was all he had ever known. He was born there: a wanderer from birth. He grew up there, a there that was always changing and yet somehow always the same. Food was scarce, water scarcer. And they, his people, were always on the move, just walking through purgatory. But no longer; it was a miracle: to stand still. And even more: to stand still on a patch of green. The man, born in desolation, thought to himself, or was it out loud, “This must be what the Garden of Eden was like.” And to have his own plot of land, after wandering for so long, a stranger in strange lands, it felt to him like the Promised Land. And so his...