John uses the Exodus reading (Exodus 33:12-23) to ask, "what does the back of God look like?" Moses was most concerned about how to be a distinctive people. How does our seeing the back of God help us be distinctive? And using the gospel reading,(Matthew 22: 15-22) how to we as people who are shaped by the back of God live in such a way that all creation and all that is in it is honoured and treated as God’s?