Homily for the Third Sunday in Lent The Episcopal Church of Our Saviour March 20, 2022 + We never really know, do we, when we might encounter God. Sometimes we feel quite certain that we have been with the Almighty, but other times we doubt if it even happened. Just like Moses, it can catch us totally by surprise. Bob Deffinbaugh says, “Little did [Moses] know that here he was going to come face to face with God. I think of him tending his sheep here as something like Peter going fishing ( John 21:2 ff.), thinking that the past was over and that life had settled into a routine.” ( https://bible.org/seriespage/3-burning-bush-exodus-31-15 Moses, if you will remember, had worked hard to understand who he was. Just as we do, he had reconciled his past and present, and was working toward the future. He...
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