Moses was camped with his people in the valley at the base of Mount Sinai. God came to him there and said, "Be ready in the morning, and come up into the mountain."

When morning came Moses was ready, and he went up. There God met him. And through that meeting the whole world has been blessed - for out of it the Ten Commandments came.

Moses was not the last to hear a call to the mountain. In whatever valleys we are, God is inviting us to meet him somewhere in the heights. Today you and I have accepted this invitation. From wherever we have been, we have come here to meet God - in a unique and special kind of way. It is indeed by invitation that we have come - and it is, in fact, by appointment that we are here.

May this hour be for you a high place in your life, a mountain-top moment. From this meeting with God may you go forth inspired for the traveling of whatever roads are ahead.