September 5, 1982

Comment: It was Labor Day weekend and it was also a time when I found myself involved in a bit of a confrontation with some leaders in my Annual Conference. That led to a strange com-bination. But knowing the story of Moses and realizing that he undertook the mission to free his people, I found myself putting together the few bits of data about Moses' wife in all that and came up with a fictitious correspondence. It was easy to find a reader for the Zipporah part because the church had a number of women who would read it well. The first time I tried it, the reader got it at the beginning of the service. I did it three years later and the reader had several days to look at it. In neither case did we practice together. But the reader's sense of timing was just fine. In bot…