I’ve been slowly devouring Dawn’s first book on Isaiah 40: To Walk and Not Faint. In her chapter on verse 4, she reflects on YHWH’s highway through the desert. What does it mean that the valleys will be lifted up and the mountains will be made low?

The gulf between rich and poor in the United States and in the world keeps getting wider . . . We could begin to reverse this trend only if we paid teachers in ghetto schools more than we do sports heroes.

This book was written in 1980, and revised in 1997, but that sort of comment still has the bite of truth in it.