- Countless memories seemingly lost in one ominous screenshot
Loading moments are any moment where circumstances threatened your memoriesIsrael as a people of memory Deuteronomy 6:4 - 9 What law does - It defines what society will and will not allow
It provides order and justice(More to the point) it defines what kind of people will inhabit and be allowed to thrive in any given society Law defines the identity of people- “Every community that wants to last beyond a single generation must concern itself with education” (Walter Brueggeman).
Israel’s memory invites conversation because it believes that what has happened will happen again What do these stories mean? …….because he knows that throughout life one needs reminders of what God has done to believe in what he will do. In choosing to mark this moment they took more stones and made them into something holyMark this moment take a mere stone and make it into something holy. Build an altar.