September 5, 1982

Comment: It was Labor Day weekend and it was also atime when I found myself involved in a bit of aconfrontation with some leaders in my Annual Conference.That led to a strange com-bination. But knowing the story ofMoses and realizing that he undertook the mission to freehis people, I found myself putting together the few bits ofdata about Moses' wife in all that and came up with afictitious correspondence.

It was easy to find a reader for the Zipporah partbecause the church had a number of women who would read itwell. The first time I tried it, the reader got it at thebeginning of the service. I did it three years later and thereader had several days to look at it. In neither case didwe practice together. But the reader's sense of timing wasjust fine. In both cases, the …