"They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt?"(Exodus 14:11)
"You're killing me smalls!" A great quote from one of my son's favorite movies The Sandlot, meant to show extreme frustration towards someone's ineptitude or clueless-ness, sometimes both. We all know those kind of situations. We get angry at someone because we find ourselves in what appears to be a bad situation because someone else messed up, made the wrong decision.
I get the sense that the Israelites felt that way about Moses often. Right from the beginning they kept finding things to start whining about. They could see death was imminent so why can't we die where we at least knew we could be buried.
That woe is me scenario gets played out often in life. We can't see beyond what's going on in front of us, but we can project the worst possible outcome all the time. Instead of always defaulting to whiny sarcasm, we might be bettered served sometimes waiting to see how things might turn out. Who knows we may not need those graves so soon.
Blessings,
Ed
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