During my current wandering with God's people in Genesis, I was reflecting on the cycle of exile. Leaving home has become something of a motif in my story - I'm neither a stranger nor an expert. My roots have learned to dangle aloft, dropping clods of dirt as they await new earth. As I meditated on Joseph's faith-fueled declaration in Genesis 50:20, I came to see the choice we have in every wilderness journey:

We can live backwards or we can live onwards.