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On Reading Joshua and Judges Sometimes we feel like a motherless child, Sometimes we feel like a fatherless orphan, Sometimes we feel like a landless refugee, Sometimes we feel like we belong in no sure place. We yearn, we hope, we weep, we wait. And many others yearn and hope and weep and wait along with us— more motherless than are we, more orphaned than are we, more refugees than are we, more homeless than are we. We ... and they ... cling to promises and entitlements. Even when we are well settled and tenured and entitled, we still cling and our clinging produces other orphans and other refugees. Oh God of all the homeless ... give land and home and shalom, correct our over-homefulness, and redistribute land among all the orphans. 93 Stop all land grabs including ours, and give gifts again according to need, according to your lavish generosity. Amen. September 27, 2002 94 ...

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