God’s displeasure with the spies is clear an entire generation was barred from the Promised Land because of their report. But beneath the surface, their failure wasn’t about describing what they saw; it was about the spirit in which they interpreted it. The real question is not what they reported, but why their words led the people away from trust in the God who had already promised the land.
In Deuteronomy, Moses revisits the story of the spies but this time, he slows the camera down. He reminds Israel that he sent twelve men ahead with a simple, pointed question: “And what of the land is it good, or is it bad?”
Now, even without stepping foot in Canaan, you already know the answer. The Promised Land is good. God Himself called it good. He chose it, blessed it, and tied His covenant to it. So why would Moses ask a question with such an obvious answer? Was he testing them? Setting a trap? Or is something else happening here?
When you read the story through Moses’ retelling when you pay attention to how the spies respond, and how the people absorb their words you start to see the contours of a deeper drama. Beneath the surface of the narrative, another story is unfolding. A story with echoes of an older failure. A story laced with subtle danger. A story that reframes this entire episode in a way most readers never notice. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
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Welcome to our mid‑month series titled, “Moses, Eden, and the Mission of the Spies.”
An episode where we trace the ancient threads that run beneath familiar stories, where the Torah’s whispers become invitations, and where the wilderness becomes a classroom for the soul.
We are going to start in the book of Deuteronomy and it’s the only book where Moses gives a sermon so long, even the Israelites who survived the wilderness start looking for the exit. Deuteronomy is basically Moses saying, ‘Before you go… let me say one more thing.’ And then he says forty more things. If Exodus is the story of leaving Egypt, Deuteronomy is the story of Moses making sure no one forgets… ever. Reading Deuteronomy is like listening to your parents give you life advice right before you move out. Except Moses was right. The Israelites didn’t wander for forty years… they were just waiting for Moses to finish Deuteronomy.
And that concludes today’s installment of Deuteronomy Dad Humor. Sprinkled in like manna you didn’t ask for but got anyway. I promise the theology gets deeper from here.
Let’s ground ourselves for a moment. We’re stepping into the opening chapters of Deuteronomy, and it’s worth asking. Where exactly are we in the story? Geographically, the nation is camped on the eastern bank of the Jordan River close enough to see the land of Israel, close enough to feel its pull, but not yet inside. Spiritually, they’re standing at the threshold of a new life. Forty years of wandering have come to an end. A new generation has risen. And Moses, knowing his time is almost over, gathers the people for one final address. That’s what the book of Deuteronomy is: Moses’s farewell.
Not a casual goodbye, but a sweeping, deliberate retelling of their journey, its triumphs, its failures, its lessons. He revisits the stories they lived through, not to repeat history for its own sake, but to prepare them for what comes next. To remind them of who they are, where they’ve been, and what they must carry with them as they cross into the Promised land.
And among all the episodes Moses could have chosen to highlight, there’s one he lingers on one he devotes most of the first chapter to: the story of the spies. Something unusual is happening in the way Moses retells that story. Something subtle. Something revealing. But before we can appreciate what Moses does with the story, we first have to appreciate the story as he tells it.
So, before we can understand what Moses does with the story in Deuteronomy, we need to go back to where the story first unfolds in Numbers chapter 13. Let’s look closely at the original mission. What exactly were the spies told to do?
Numbers 13:17–20lays it out with remarkable detail.
17 So Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up there into the Negev; then go up into the hill country. 18 And see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many. 19 And how is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in which they live, are they like open camps or with fortifications? 20 And how is the land, is it fat or lean? Are there trees in it or not? Make an effort then to get some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.
Moses sends the men into the land of Canaan and gives them a series of very specific instructions:
Go up through the Negev.
Ascend into the hill country.
Look at the land, what is it like?
Look at the people, are they strong or weak, few or many?
Look at the cities, are they open encampments or fortified strongholds?
Look at the land again, is it rich or poor, fat or lean?
And then this curious question: “Are there trees in it or not?”
Finally: “Strengthen yourselves and bring back some of the fruit of the land.”
And the text adds a small but important detail: it was the season of the first ripe grapes.
When you read the passage straight, without commentary, you hear the tone of the mission. Moses isn’t sending them to decide whether the land is worth entering. He’s sending them to observe, to report, to gather data. It’s reconnaissance, not a referendum. The questions are practical, concrete, almost military in nature. What’s the terrain? What’s the population? What’s the infrastructure? What’s the agricultural potential?
And yet, tucked inside that list is that odd question “Is there a tree or not?” a question that seems almost out of place. It’s a detail that will matter later, but for now, it simply sits there, waiting for us to notice it. This is the mission as it was originally given. This is the story before Moses retells it. And only once we understand this version can we appreciate what Moses does with it in Deuteronomy how he reframes it, what he emphasizes, and what that shift reveals.
Now let’s move down to the moment when the spies return and deliver their report. And here’s the question we need to hold in front of us: Did they actually carry out everything Moses asked of them? Did they bring the fruit? Did they bring the information? Or is there something missing?
Numbers 13:27opens their report: “We came to the land where you sent us. It indeed flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.”
So far, they’ve checked two boxes.
They describe the land’s richness milk and honey and they present the fruit. That part of the mission seems fulfilled.
Then they continue: 28 “However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And we also saw the descendants of Anak there. Amalek dwells in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the Jordan.” And that’s where their report stops.
So, let’s evaluate. Did they answer Moses’s questions? Are the people strong or weak? They say the people are az-as the Hebrew word for strong. That’s a direct response. Are they few or many? They don’t give numbers, but they list multiple nations spread across multiple regions. That certainly sounds like a populous land. Are the cities open or fortified? They report “fortified and very large” cities again, a direct answer.
So, on the surface, it seems like they’re doing what Moses asked. They’re describing the people, the cities, the land, and they’ve brought back fruit.
But if you listen closely, something is off. There’s a subtle gap in the instruction Moses gave that they never address. And that missing piece is going to become the hinge on which the entire story turns.
Now let’s circle back to Moses’s original instructions about the land itself. Moses asked the spies to report on two distinct dichotomies: Is the land good or bad? Is the land fat or lean? meaning productive or barren.
So, did the spies address both? On the surface, they clearly answered the second one. They tell Moses the land is overflowing with milk and honey. They hold up the fruit. They demonstrate its abundance. That’s a direct response to the “fat or lean” question. But the first dichotomy good or bad is conspicuously absent. They never say it’s good. They never say it’s bad. They simply… don’t answer.
And that silence is striking, especially because the rest of their report mirrors Moses’s instructions almost word for word. Moses asks if the people are strong or weak; they say the people are az-as strong. Moses asks about the cities; they say the cities are fortified. Moses asks about the population; they list nation after nation. They are meticulous except on this one point. Why?
One thing that jumps out is that “good or bad” is the only item on Moses’s list that isn’t easily quantifiable. Everything else is observational: Are there many people or few? Are the cities fortified or open? Is the land productive or barren? Are there trees or not? But “good” and “bad”? How are twelve people supposed to measure that? What’s the metric? Do they take a vote? Thumbs up, thumbs down? It’s the one question that requires judgment, not observation. It demands interpretation, not data collection. And perhaps that’s precisely why they avoid it.
Because to declare the land “good” or “bad” is to step into the realm of meaning, value, and purpose categories that, in the Torah’s world, belong to God. It’s the same language God used in Genesis when He evaluated creation. He is the One who calls things “good.” So, the spies, whether consciously or not, sidestep the one question that would require them to speak in God’s register. They report the facts. They avoid the verdict.
And that omission what they refuse to say will become the fault line that cracks the entire story open.
So, let’s complicate this picture a bit. Turn with me now to the very next chapter Numbers 14where we hear the people’s reaction to the spies’ report. Because the spies don’t stop with the factual observations we just read. They go on to paint a far darker picture: “The people there are stronger than we are… we were like grasshoppers in their eyes… we can’t do this… we’re doomed.”
And the nation breaks. They cry out. They despair. Numbers 14:2captures their first outburst: “If only we had died in the land of Egypt!” And then verse 3 delivers the line that matters for us: “Would it not be good for us to return to Egypt?” Wouldn’t it be tov good to go back? There it is. The word that was missing from the spies’ report suddenly appears on the lips of the people. So now we have two contrasting moments: The spies, who were explicitly asked to evaluate whether the land was good or bad, never touch that question.
The people, reacting to the spies’ fear‑laden narrative, suddenly feel empowered to declare what is “good”: returning to Egypt. And that contrast is telling. Because notice how “tov” functions here. It’s not an observation.
It’s a conclusion, a verdict drawn from the data they’ve just absorbed: The people are strong. The cities are fortified. We don’t stand a chance. Therefore… what would be good? Going back to Egypt. In other words, “good” and “bad” sit at the end of the interpretive chain. You can’t answer that question until you’ve gathered all the other information. It’s the only item on Moses’s list that requires judgment, not measurement. And that’s precisely why it stands out.
The spies faithfully report the quantifiable facts population, fortifications, produce. But when it comes to the one question that demands interpretation, the one question that echoes God’s own language from Genesis “good” they fall silent. Yet the people, hearing the spies’ fear, rush to fill that silence. They seize the authority to declare what is “good.” And the verdict they reach is catastrophic. This is the hinge of the story: the moment when the absence of “tov” in the spies’ report becomes the presence of “tov” in the people’s rebellion.
Let me add one more piece of evidence that really highlights just how striking the spies’ silence about tov is. Turn with me for a moment to Exodus chapter 3, the burning bush. We’re standing with Moses on holy ground, shoes off, listening as God lays out for the very first-time what redemption will look like. God is describing the destination; the land He intends to bring the people to. Exodus 3:8: “I have come down to rescue them from the hand of Egypt and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey…”
There it is. The very first divine description of the land: good. Tov. And listen to how the verse continues: “…to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.” A list of nations almost the exact list the spies will later recite. It’s uncanny. It’s as if the template for the spies’ report is already sitting here at the burning bush. The land flows with milk and honey. The nations who inhabit it. And above all: the land is good.
Which makes the spies’ silence even louder. Because when the spies return, they echo almost everything from this verse: They talk about milk and honey. They list the nations. They describe the land’s productivity. But the one thing they don’t echo the one thing they leave out is the very first word God ever used to describe the land: good.
It’s almost as if Exodus 3 is the land through God’s eyes and Numbers 13 is the land through the people’s eyes. And the difference between those two perspectives is not just poetic it’s the theological heart of the story. God calls the land tov. The spies refuse to. And the people, hearing the spies’ fear, step into that vacuum and declare something else tov entirely: “Wouldn’t it be good for us to return to Egypt?” The contrast couldn’t be sharper. God says the land is good. The spies won’t say it. The people say Egypt is good. And that reversal that flipping of the moral compass is the moment the entire narrative begins to collapse.
Now let’s look at the people’s reaction. We already know the spies’ report sends shockwaves through the camp. The people hear it, and they break. They cry out. And then they say this Numbers 14:3 “It is better for us to return to Egypt.”There it is again: tov. But now it’s being used in a way that flips the entire story on its head. And then, in the very next verse, the people turn to one another and say, “Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”At that moment, Moses and Aaron fall on their faces. Why? Because Moses knows something the people seem to have forgotten. Moses knows God’s words. He knows that God Himself described the land as “a good land.” He knows that the entire mission of the spies was meant to confirm what God had already promised that the land is tov, that it is good in the deepest, most God‑given sense of the word. So, imagine Moses listening to the spies’ report. He hears them describe the land’s abundance. He sees the fruit. He hears about the fortified cities and the strong inhabitants. And maybe just maybe he gives them the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe he thinks: They didn’t say “good,” but perhaps they’re leaving that conclusion to me. Perhaps they’re simply reporting the facts. But then the people speak. And when the word tov finally appears, it’s not attached to the land God promised. It’s attached to Egypt. Not “It is good for us to enter the land.” Not “It is good because God said it is good.” But “It is good for us to go back to Egypt.” That’s the breaking point.
Because the moment the people use tov the moment they claim the authority to declare what is “good” they don’t use it to affirm God’s promise. They use it to reject it. They use it to sanctify retreat. They use it to elevate Egypt, the place of their suffering over the land God Himself called good. And Moses collapses. He falls on his face.
Because he sees exactly what has happened: the people have taken the one word that belongs to God the word that defines creation, the word that defines the land and they’ve used it to undo everything God has been building toward. This is the moment the story turns tragic. Not when the spies speak. But when the people take the missing word and wield it against God’s promise.
Now look at how the other leaders respond to the emerging leaders. Moses and Aaron fall on their faces, but who rises? Joshua and Caleb. And in verse 7, they turn to the entire congregation and declare: “and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.”Not just tov. Very, very good. So what are they doing here? Remember what the spies have been saying up to this point. They’ve emphasized the strength of the inhabitants, the size of the cities, the impossibility of conquest. If you hadn’t read the story before, you’d expect Joshua and Caleb to counter with a military argument: “Yes, they’re strong, but with God we are stronger.” And they do say something like that earlier, at the end of chapter 13.
But here, they choose a different strategy. They don’t argue with tactics. They don’t argue with strength. They argue goodness. They supply the missing word. They restore the missing verdict. They speak the one thing the spies refused to say.
And not only do they say it they amplify it. They don’t just call the land good. They call it very good. And that phrase should ring in our ears.
Very good is the language of Genesis, the language of the sixth day, the moment when God looks at creation as a whole and declares it “very good.” Joshua and Caleb are intentionally invoking the vocabulary of creation. They are pulling the people back to God’s perspective. They are re‑anchoring the land in the divine evaluation that precedes human fear. And once you see that, the whole story begins to echo Eden. In Genesis, God calls creation good. In Numbers, God calls the land good. In Genesis, there is a tree that is “good” and “not good,” a tree tied to the knowledge of good and evil.
In Numbers, Moses asks the spies to determine whether the land is “good or bad.” In Genesis, humans take “good” into their own hands literally by taking fruit. In Numbers, the spies take fruit and then refuse to speak the word “good.” It’s the same constellation of themes: good, bad, very good, fruit, evaluation, rebellion. Which means the spies and the people are, in a sense, walking back down the same tragic path Adam and Eve walked. They are stepping into the same temptation: to seize the authority to define “good” for themselves, rather than receiving it from God.
And if that’s true, then Joshua and Caleb are doing the opposite. They are reaching back to the moment before the fall. They are restoring the divine perspective. They are re‑voicing the verdict God Himself spoke over creation: “It is very good.” They are calling the people back to the world as God sees it before fear, before distortion, before the human impulse to redefine good and evil on our own terms.
Could it be that Joshua and Caleb are doing two things at once? On the surface, yes, they’re correcting the spies. They’re saying: You missed something essential. This isn’t just a land that flows with milk and honey. It’s a good land. They’re restoring the missing verdict. But beneath that, they’re doing something deeper. They’re calling out the reason the spies missed it. They’re naming the spiritual failure underneath the factual report. Because there was once a Being in the world who had the authority to evaluate good and bad. Only one.
And that Being was God the Creator who, at the culmination of creation, looked at the universe and at humanity within it and declared it very good. That prerogative belongs to God alone. Not to angels. Not to humanity. Not even to twelve tribal representatives carrying fruit on a pole. And yet here we are: the very creatures once pronounced “very good” now standing before the land God Himself called good and somehow failing to see its goodness. Worse, they declare something else good entirely: “It is good for us to return to Egypt.”
It’s not just a misjudgment. It’s audacity. It’s a replay of Eden. The spies were meant to see the land through God’s eyes. Instead, they saw it through their own fear. And that is precisely what Joshua and Caleb are responding to. Look at verse 9: “Only do not rebel against the LORD.”They name the sin outright. This isn’t strategic disagreement. This isn’t military caution. This is rebellion because redefining “good” against God’s word is rebellion. And now Moses’s strange instruction “Is there a tree there?”suddenly glows with meaning. Why ask that? Why that detail? Unless Moses is consciously invoking Eden. Unless he senses that Israel is approaching a moment structurally similar to the Garden. Unless he knows that the test in Eden was precisely this: Can humanity see the world through God’s perspective? Can they let God be the judge of good and evil?
In Eden, God says: “Do not eat from this tree.” But Eve looks at the tree and says: “It looks good to me.” She takes the fruit. She asserts her own definition of good. And here, the pattern repeats: God says: “I am bringing you to a good land.” The spies refuse to say it is good. The people declare Egypt good. They take fruit from the land, just as Eve took fruit from the tree. They redefine good on their own terms. It’s all there: good, bad, very good, fruit, rebellion, redefinition. Joshua and Caleb see the omission. They hear the silence around tov. And they step into that void with the language of Genesis itself “The land is very, very good.”
They are pulling Israel back to the divine vantage point back to the moment before the fall, before the distortion, before humanity seized the right to define good and evil. They are saying: See the land as God sees it. Return to the Creator’s perspective. Don’t repeat Eden. And Moses’s question “Is there a tree there?” becomes the quiet, knowing wink of the Torah an invitation to recognize that Israel is not just entering a land. They are re‑approaching the Garden. And the question is whether they will repeat the ancient mistake… or redeem it.
Maybe Moses senses something profound about what the people are about to enter. Maybe he knows consciously or intuitively that the land of Israel is Eden, take two. Humanity failed the test once, long ago, when asked to see the world through God’s perspective. Now, standing on the threshold of the land, Israel is being given another chance. God has already declared this land tov, good. The question is: can the people bring themselves to see it as good?
And it’s not an easy test. Because what will they see when they enter the land? Yes, they’ll see fertility. Yes, they’ll see abundance. But they’ll also see fortified cities and powerful inhabitants. They’ll see danger. They’ll see risk. And the real test is whether they can look at all of that and still defer to God as the judge of good and evil. Whether they can say: “God calls this land good, so I will call it good.”
But notice: no one disputes the land’s productivity. Everyone agrees it flows with milk and honey. Everyone agrees the fruit is extraordinary. The sticking point is whether they believe they can survive there.
And because they fear they cannot, they redefine the land as “not good” not because of its nature, but because of their anxiety. That failure to see through God’s eyes, to trust God’s evaluation becomes the reason they cannot enter the land. And the punishment fits the failure: they will never see the land. Only their children will. Now look at how God describes those children. Numbers 14:31: “Your children, whom you said would become plunder I will bring them in, and they will know the land you rejected.” They will know the land. Now flip back to Deuteronomy and find Moses’s retelling. Deuteronomy 1:39: “Your little ones… your sons, who today have no knowledge of good and evil they shall enter, and I will give it to them.”The parallel is stunning.
In Numbers, the children are the ones who will know the land. In Deuteronomy, the children are the ones who do not know good and evil. And those two descriptions are equated. This is astonishing for two reasons: “Knowledge of good and evil” appears in only two places in the entire Torah: in the story of Eden and here. That’s it. The contrast between Numbers and Deuteronomy is deliberate. In Numbers: the children will know the land. In Deuteronomy: the children do not know good and evil. Why would lacking knowledge of good and evil make someone fit to inherit the land?
Because in the Torah’s world, “knowing good and evil” is an understatement. It doesn’t mean moral maturity. It means claiming the right to define good and evil independently of God. To “know good and evil” in the Edenic sense is to say: “I decide what is good. I decide what is bad.” And once a human being takes that stance, they lose the ability to see the land as God sees it. They lose the ability to “know the land.” They exile themselves from Eden. That’s exactly what happens in Genesis: Adam and Eve “know good and evil,” and they are exiled from the garden.
And that’s exactly what happens here: The generation of the spies “knows good and evil” they declare Egypt good and the land bad and they are exiled from the land. They die in the wilderness. Not immediately, but inevitably. Their mortality is pronounced, just as Adam and Eve’s mortality is pronounced. And the language of ra evil swirls all around the spies’ story.
They bring a bad report. They are called an evil congregation. The text is saturated with the vocabulary of moral distortion. All of this reinforces the same point: the spies’ mission was Eden, part two. Moses and God set up a test with every expectation that the people freshly redeemed, freshly sustained by miracles would defer to God’s evaluation of good and evil. That they would trust the Creator’s perspective over their own fear. But they didn’t. They repeated the ancient mistake. They took the fruit. They redefined good. And they exiled themselves from the land. The children, who “do not know good and evil,” who have not yet claimed that prerogative, are the ones who can enter. They are the ones who can see the land as God sees it. They are the ones who can walk into Eden restored.
So where did they go wrong? Maybe the issue wasn’t the facts they reported. Maybe the issue was the verdict they attached to those facts. Therefore, we cannot conquer the land. That conclusion directly contradicted everything God had been telling them. That was the overreach. That was the moment they stepped into God’s role and claimed the authority to define what was possible, what was good, what was doomed.
They should have stopped short of that verdict. They could have said something like: “God, you told us this land is good and that we will inherit it. Honestly, it doesn’t look that way to us. We’re frightened. The obstacles feel overwhelming. But if You say this land is ours, then somehow despite what our eyes see we trust You’ll make a way.” That would have been faith.
Not the denial of facts, but the courage to hold facts and faith in the same trembling hands. To sit inside the paradox without letting fear rewrite God’s promises. And that paradox? We modern people know it well. We live in the tension between what we see and what we believe, between the data in front of us and the hope God calls us to hold. The spies’ failure isn’t ancient history, it’s a mirror. A reminder that the real test is not whether we see giants, but whether we let the giants define what is good, what is possible, and what God can do.
There are moments more than we’d like to admit when my sense of what is good or bad simply doesn’t match what God calls good or bad. And the question becomes: What do I do with that gap? The answer isn’t to pretend the tension isn’t there. Faith isn’t about shutting your eyes and humming loudly until the discomfort goes away. The Torah never asks us to deny what we see. It asks us to be honest about what we see and to be humble about what we don’t.
The real invitation is to name the tension without letting it uproot trust. To say: “God, this doesn’t look good to me. It doesn’t feel good to me. But I know You see more than I do.”
Humility becomes the hinge. It’s the willingness to admit that my vantage point is limited, that my instincts are shaped by fear, desire, history, wounds, and bias. God’s perspective isn’t. God sees the whole tapestry; I see a single thread. So, the work the lifelong work is learning to sit inside that paradox. To hold the facts in one hand and faith in the other. To acknowledge the giants in front of me without letting them define the story. To say, “This is hard, and I don’t understand it… and still, I trust You.”
That posture doesn’t resolve the tension. It doesn’t make the fear evaporate. It doesn’t guarantee that tomorrow will suddenly make sense. Sometimes you sit in that space for a season. Sometimes for years. Sometimes for a lifetime.
But that’s where spiritual maturity is forged in the willingness to live faithfully in the unresolved places. In the courage to let God’s definition of the good stand even when mine trembles. In the quiet, stubborn decision to trust that the One who sees the whole picture is leading me somewhere worth going.
And maybe that’s the deeper lesson the spies never learned. Faith isn’t the absence of tension. Faith is the refusal to let the tension dethrone God.
So maybe that’s where this whole journey leaves us not just with a story about ancient Israel, or Eden, or a generation that lost its way, but with a mirror held up to our own lives. Because there will be days when what I see in front of me doesn’t look “good” at all. Days when God’s promises feel out of sync with my reality. Days when my instincts, my fears, my definitions of good and bad clash with the goodness God declares over my life.
And in those moments, the invitation isn’t to pretend. It isn’t to plaster on a smile or deny the giants in the land. The invitation is to humility to acknowledge the tension without letting it swallow my faith. To remember that God sees from a vantage point I don’t have, that His knowledge of good and evil is not distorted by fear or desire or self‑interest.
The invitation is to live in the paradox. To say, “God, this is what I see… and still, I trust You.” To take the next step, even when the path feels uncertain. To hold the facts in one hand and faith in the other, and to walk forward anyway.
Maybe that’s what it means to enter the land like a child open, trusting, unburdened by the need to define everything for ourselves. Maybe that’s how the gates of Eden crack open again. So, as you go into your week, may you have the courage to face what’s in front of you honestly, and the humility to trust God’s goodness even when it doesn’t align with your own. May you find the strength to live inside the tension without losing heart. And may you discover, step by step, that the God who calls the land good is the same God who walks with you through every wilderness and He calls you good.
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Until next time may you hear the echoes of revelation in your own story, and may they lead you closer to the One who defines the good. Shalom