Moses Unhinged

* Jesus pray for me
* Moses pray for me
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+----Moses Unhinged; The Thoughts Of Moses At The Burning Bush

After 40 years tending flocks
I swear Im schizophrenic, I hear
voices calling my name,
the soulful baritone of leaves,
the deep base of brown-bark-
speak, firm convictions
of a bush buried within
the desert soil of Midian.
And maybe, just maybe Im
not hallucinating, but Im not
sure. Bright flashes of resplendent
light, then lambent flickering,
a flash of fire then foliage that
flickers but doesn’t burn. Is
this a metaphor for my inner self
desirous of a shift in consciousness?
Is God extending an invitation into nebulae,
the unsettling unknown of how to come
to terms with all my people I left behind
in Egypt as murderer,
one night of guilt free sleep if I snatch
them from Pharaoh? If you ARE God
tell me your name…how do I even greet you?
You see, Ive reached an impasse. I don’t
know what to do with my life anymore.
If this is real, if you are real….help me find
answers, because:
I AM afraid,
I AM criminal (with a bad lisp),
I AM lost without the family that set me
adrift for better days, in a wicker basket,
down by the Nile when I was born

-----------------Exodus 3:1-14
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”