William Willimon opens his book, Peculiar Speech with a reflection on freedom and thirst: In Egypt we thought our problem was our need for liberation. But once liberated, free, we were thirsty; at least Pharaoh gave us water and three square meals a day. And we murmured against Moses, asking, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children…. with thirst?” (Exodus 17:3). Slavery began to look good. Most of the really stupid things we have done in our history are attributed to our seemingly unquenchable thirst. . . We thought that our problem was our need for freedom, for liberation. No. Our problem is thirst. Our controversy is over approbate ways to quench thirst.
A Lent Within A Lent
A Lent Within A Lent
A Lent Within A Lent
William Willimon opens his book, Peculiar Speech with a reflection on freedom and thirst: In Egypt we thought our problem was our need for liberation. But once liberated, free, we were thirsty; at least Pharaoh gave us water and three square meals a day. And we murmured against Moses, asking, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children…. with thirst?” (Exodus 17:3). Slavery began to look good. Most of the really stupid things we have done in our history are attributed to our seemingly unquenchable thirst. . . We thought that our problem was our need for freedom, for liberation. No. Our problem is thirst. Our controversy is over approbate ways to quench thirst.