“Who Will Cross Before You”

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“It is Joshua who will cross before you, as the Lord promised.” (Deuteronomy 31:3)

And so, Moses didn’t make it to the Promised Land. The Lord had told him that would be the case. He was too old, too worn, simply used up and spent. And yet, in today’s first reading from Deuteronomy, Moses doesn’t wail and complain to God about the unfairness of i...