October 16, 2022: When You Can’t Go Back - Michael Hidalgo

Sometimes the past looks glorious from the present. This is especially the case when the present isn’t so great. We see this in the lives of the people of Israel after being freed from their captivity in Egypt. They live in inhospitable conditions, totally and completely dependent on daily food provisions, drinking water from the rock, with an eye on an unknown place and an unknown future. Who wouldn’t look back and want to go there, no matter how bad that may have been. But what happens when you can’t go back?