Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem
Ever since I was a child, I have always failed the school-sponsored hearing tests. Year after year, from kindergarten onward, I would dread the yearly hearing screenings, as I knew where it would lead. The school would demand that my parents take me into Roxbury to "The Horace Mann School For The Deaf" for additional screenings. The doctors at the school would admit that, yes, there was some hearing impairment, but wasn't significant enough to warrant hearing aids or even special arrangements. This went on all through Grades K-6. Finally, after years of compliance and frustration, my parents just started to ignore the schoolmarms and asked ME how I felt about it. "I can hear just fine," I said, "I'm a musician and am in the middle of producing my first opera (in which I wrote and arranged all the music, made the costumes, and organized my High School friends to perform, LOL), fer cryin' out loud!"
I finally decided that I would hear what I wanted to hear, and ignore the rest.
As I have gotten older, however, it's gotten worse. There really WAS something wrong with my hearing but it didn't go full bore until recently. I guess 50 years of motorcycles and rock'n'roll has had its effect. Anyway, now that everybody is wearing masks, I realize how much lip-reading I had been doing. And, of course, masks tend to muffle speech. So, the Quarantine has been very difficult for me in more ways than one.
Now, it seems that Moses had a kind of speech impediment that he felt was holding him back from ministry. He speaks of having "Faltering Lips". Was he a stutterer? Or perhaps would he become tongue-tied when nervous or afraid? Remember, as a baby, before he was even weaned, Moses was set adrift in a basket. Then he was raised in a pagan court where he had a secret identity as a slave. Then he sees his own people abused, commits murder, is exiled, and now has come back to confront the very gods of Egypt.
That would make me stutter too.
Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.
"He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." (Romans 4:25)
God Bless America!
Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.
This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.
Hallelujah and Amen
ML/LTOS