Here’s Why We Need To Remember The Past

“Remember that you were a slave in Egypt,” Moses instructed as he came to the end of his life.   But did these sons of Abraham need to be reminded?  Had they not sat around campfires listening to the stories of parents and grandparents?  Had they not seen the scars on their wrists and ankles, and the marks on their backs—imprints without and far more within—which they would carry to their deaths?