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OUR DAILY BREAD April 28, Sunday GOD’S RETIREMENT PLAN Ruth O’Reilly-Smith The angel of the Lord appeared to [Moses] in flames of fire from within a bush. Exodus 3:2 Exodus 3:1–10 1 Kings 3–5; Luke 20:1–26 Archaeologist Dr. Warwick Rodwell was preparing to retire when he made an extraordinary discovery at Lichfield Cathedral in England. As builders carefully excavated part of the floor of the church to make way for a retractable base, they discovered a sculpture of the archangel Gabriel, thought to be 1,200 years old. Dr. Rodwell’s retirement plans were put on hold as his find launched him into an exciting and busy new season. Moses was eighty years old when he made a fiery discovery that would forever alter his life. Though the adopted son of an Egyptian princess, he never forgot his Hebrew lineage and raged at the injustice he witnessed against his kinsmen (Exodus 2:11–12). When Pharaoh learned that Moses had kill...