Today is the 13th day of April.

Welcome. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian.

Wonderful, as always, to be here with you, grateful to be here with you today.

As we gather and begin a work week, as we, as we gather and begin a work week as we as we gather and leave the cares of whatever is

out in front of us outside the circle where we can just come in here and there's just permission

to kind of let it go because we're not not letting anything go like permanently, or maybe we are, but not to avoid it.

We're just giving ourselves permission to be in a safe place where repair can happen and where the scriptures can speak very deeply into where we've been, where we're going,

who we are, who God is, and lead us. And so grateful to be here with you today for the next

step, which leads us back out into the book of Joshua. We have finally,

finally, gotten into the promised land. Finally. Like we were in the land when it was promised

with Abram, who became Abraham. Like we were in the land when he looked at the stars

and God promised him numerous infinite offspring so we've wandered through here with Abraham Isaac and Jacob throughout this land.

But then this drought happened and, right?

And Joseph was sold into slavery, trafficked by his family.

And strange twist of fate, he becomes second in command of all of Egypt and a great

drought happens which brings the family to Egypt ultimately where they stay over four centuries

and in that time Joseph and all this story is forgotten but the story of this promised land is mythic.

It's interwoven into the Hebrew culture.

And it's still there.

That's when we meet up with Moses.

And this grand exodus that takes place and this grand exodus that takes place

and this wilderness journey that speaks so deeply

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