When Jesus refers to our daily bread in the prayer he teaches his disciples, he is likely making reference to this story. Though the people are constantly complaining, God provides all that they need for their journey. On the tenth anniversary of a tragic day it might be good to remember that God provides all that we need as well.

Most of us think of Cecil B. DeMille's version of the crossing of the Red Sea when we imagine this story. Except it was the Sea of Reeds and wasn't nearly as dramatic as Hollywood would have us think. Except for those crossing into freedom, of course. For them it must have been way larger than life.

Is there any place in your life that you would consider holy ground? Do remember what happened there that makes you regard it as such? Well, Moses had a life-changing conversation with a voice that came from a bush, and it led him not only to consider the place holy ground but to leave a comfortable life as a shepherd and embark upon a world-changing journey.

Sometime what on the surface seems to be an untruth is really a way of telling the deepest truth. The midwives who refuse to kill on Pharaohs command learn to tell that kind of truth.

Maturity is a remarkable thing, especially when it happens to someone with Josephs track record. Can this Egyptian Official be the same brat that his brothers tried to get rid of?