As I'm writing a new lesson for the Bible study, Individualized Retirement Assignments: Seniors in Scripture, I re-examined two poems which I wrote years ago about Moses. I'm posting the update here, a combined version :

Go, Moses

On an ordinary day,

The extraordinary God

From an ordinary bush

Now burning, though not consumed,

Spoke to an ordinary man.

Go Moses, I'll be with you.

Who are you?

The LORD God Almighty

But I'm not eloquent.

I'll give you My words.

They won’t believe you sent me!

I'll give you My power.

Can’t you send someone else?

You’re making me angry, Moses!

GO! No more excuses.

The extraordinary God

Burned up forty years

And sent Moses back

Not as Prince of Egypt,

But Shepherd of His enslaved people.

God delivered them,

Parted the Red Sea,

Led and sustained them.

But the extraordinary God spoke to Moses

Face to face, as to a friend.

Written by Nancy Baker in 2003, revised 2017