”And they took from before Moses all the donation that the Israelites had brought for the task of the holy work to do it, and they on their part brought more freewill gifts morning after morning. And all the wise people…said to Moses, saying, ‘The people are bringing too much for the work of the task that the Lord charged to do..”
In the early days of the place that we now call California, all of the animals were not getting along with each other very well.
And Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You done evil to Your servant, and why have I not found favor in Your eyes, to put the burden of all this people upon me?”
When New York arts journalists asked “The Prophet”, Vic Fine, what dreams he had for his theater company, his stock answer was “My hope is that it flourishes and can touch as many hearts as possible.” Vic’s wife Hannah knew that what Vic really wanted was to shut the whole thing down.