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Exodus 18:2 · World English Bible

Exodus 18:2 Meaning Jethro

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,

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What does Exodus 18:2 mean?

After the mind has passed through its trial, the gaining, reuniting faculty within a person brings the spirit back into the body. Zipporah is the bird that rises above thought, the spirit lifted clear while the lower work was done and now returned to be joined again to the mind that had let her go.

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After the mind has passed through its trial, the gaining, reuniting faculty within a person brings the spirit back into the body. Zipporah is the bird that rises above thought, the spirit lifted clear while the lower work was done and now returned to be joined again to the mind that had let her go.

Moses is the whole description of a person's mind moving through its stages, and Jethro is the inner power of gain that reunites spirit with the physical once meditation has done its part. The sending back was not a loss but a keeping, and the taking again is the emotions and the spirit rejoined to the mind, so the person becomes whole once more.

Jethro: the inner faculty of gain that reunites spirit with the body after the mind's trial Zipporah: the bird, the spirit risen above thought, sent up and then rejoined to the mind

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Live Exodus 18:2 today

  1. After anything that lifted you, a walk, a song, a good quiet half hour, give it one minute to land in your body before you pick up your phone. Let it come back with you rather than leaving it behind.
  2. Reach out to one person you set aside while you were busy or struggling. A plain message is enough: you were on my mind, can we talk this week.
  3. When the day pulls you back into noise, stop at the door of the next thing, the car, the meeting, the kitchen, and carry your calm in with you on purpose instead of handing it over at the threshold.

What good thing in you have you sent away for a while, and is it time to bring it home?

The same truth in other traditions

Taoism, Chuang Tzu

After the fasting of the heart the sage is empty enough to move through the ordinary world without strain. The emptiness is for living in, not for staying in.

Hinduism, Bhagavad Gita 3

Krishna tells Arjuna not to abandon action but to return to it carrying what he has seen. The inner lift is meant to be married back to the work of living.

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