Lisa J. Camp

In my life I have spent thousands of dollars in insurance in the event of damage or loss of any kind.  Thousands in premiums for insurance I've rarely needed.  All of that to prevent losing everything in an accident or disaster.  I get it.  I really do.  You have to have insurance for those unexpected tragedies so you don't go broke and have to start all over again.  But I gotta tell you that as a adult, I've made 2 claims ever against my car insurance, none against my home owners insurance and very little against health insurance. I think I would have been better off putting all those premiums in a bank somewhere (that no doubt is insured not to lose my money). We have a lot of options and mandates for insurance in our country.  Your car must have insurance in case you are hit or you hit someone else.  If you have a mortgage, you have to have homeowners insurance in case you burn it down or get hit by a tornado, hurricane, flood or other "act of God".  You have

Part One Part Two Forty years after leaving Egypt - nearly a lifetime in our age.  That's how long it took for the life of a prince, the life of privilege, to reprogram in Moses to that of a servant.  What had to feel like wasted time and wasted days had a glorious purpose in the eyes of God.  Oh we don't always see it - some of us never see it... that shedding of the old self and emergence of a new purer, humbler, refined, remade follower of God.  To be brought low by our own insufficiency until our only strength is found in Him is often a humbling and painful chrysalis.  Our life is mundane and vulnerable and seemingly useless simply abiding in our cocoon while God does His work within us.  We emerge from these places changed in profound ways.  It's the story of many.  It's the story of Moses. I hope it to be the story of me.  Ground zero on the backside of the desert working a job, nostalgic for the days when life made sense and felt important.  All of that st