Dear Father, When Moses and the Israelites left Egypt for the Promised Land, they passed through the wilderness, and they said to Moses, “Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” I’m wondering how the very same people who cried out for deliverance from slavery could accuse Moses on their way from bondage to freedom. How mistaken it was to think that the distance between slavery and the Promised Land was only a mile away! If it were easily attainable, why did they seek it in tears? And if they knew they had asked a difficult thing, why did they expect a seamless process? But aren’t we all guilty of the same? Guilty of desiring kingship but abhorring the troubles that come with it; of longing for greatness but despising the process that leads there; of asking for elevation but settling for less when the journey becomes hard. The way to the Promised Land is not the path back to Egypt; it is the way through the wilderness. Help us, Father, to endure and live through the process that comes with our desired positions. Translations; Slide 1: #English Slide 2: #French Slide 3: #Bengali Slide 4: #Hindi Slide 5: #Urdu #LettertoGod