PLACE-NAMES
(Exodus 17:1-7)
Moses struck the rock,
the water most likely flowed*
and the people lived.
The place-name given
remembers their lack of faith
not God in their midst.
In our faith journey
we too sometimes make ‘place-names’
for the times of doubt.
Is God-in-our-midst,
the presence of the holy,
what they remember?
Jeff Shrowder, 2023
* The text doesn’t say directly, we just assume that it did.
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