Storm, Rising (The Exodus, part 8)
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When Yahweh invites the Israelites to the thundering Mt. Sinai, they begin to realize what relationship requires.
Text: Exodus 19:1-20:21
Players:
- Yahweh
- Moses
What's Spooky:
- This one's quite family-friendly
Credits:
Research, Writing, Narration, Direction: Justin Gerhardt
Season 4 Original Score: Kendall Ramseur
Sound Engineering: Joël Dollié
Manuscript Editing: JL Gerhardt
Intro Music: "Winds of Change," Four Trees
Outro Music: "Fine-Toothed Chrome," Sam Barsh
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Intimacy requires at least three things. |
| 0:10.0 | Proximity, vulnerability, reciprocity. |
| 0:15.0 | Distance must be crossed, one's true self must be revealed, and both parties must desire to engage. |
| 0:25.6 | Relational closeness cannot happen without two willing participants. |
| 0:33.6 | This is a story about what's possible when the God of the universe longs for connection. |
| 0:41.3 | The absurd, breathtaking potential of deity bent on love. |
| 0:48.3 | But this is also a story about what's impossible when human beings opt for safety over him, |
| 0:59.0 | the absurd, heartbreaking tragedy of humanity, unwilling to step toward the cloud. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Justin Gerhardt. |
| 1:10.0 | Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories. Mount Sinai, Horaub, as it's also called, is a collage. |
| 1:47.0 | 7,495 feet of interwoven rock. |
| 1:52.0 | Alkaline formed, feldspar, nephaline, a smattering of mica's olivine and lusite, |
| 1:59.0 | plutonic rocks, too, veining their way through the fray, |
| 2:02.8 | coarse crystalline artifacts of volcanic activity, magma's calling card. |
| 2:09.4 | A press of shapes and textures, orientations and colors, smooth and jagged, curved and knife-straight, powdered and exposed, hulking and minute, |
| 2:21.3 | vertical and diagonal and horizontal, chestnut and umber and sorrel and cinnamon, all at once. |
| 2:29.3 | It is a great monolith, but it is not monolithic. |
| 2:35.3 | The best way to acquaint oneself with Sinai's unexpected complexity is to do what Moses is doing now. |
| 2:43.5 | Climate. |
| 2:45.2 | Suddenly, what from a distance might have appeared to be a monochrome, homogenous pile of stone proves as your feet trod |
| 2:53.6 | its hidden paths, as your fingers tug on its outcroppings, as your eyes sweep its features |
| 2:59.7 | and your mind evaluates its myriad peculiarities, the quintessence of complexity. |
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