Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing."
*Genesis 12.1,2, ESV, Hebrew Scripture
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All that God has for Abram is past the edges of the familiar. Abram will never become Abraham, a newly named and destined man, if he remains in the familiar, inside the borders of the known. In the familiar he will feel safer and know the area better. In the familiar he will not lose his close relations with family and friends, likely, many of whom he grew up with from a child. Abram has to choose between the familiar or journey beyond the edges of the known. We do, too. And, possibly, the greatest journey we could ever make, and most challenging, is within. If we say "Yes" to beyond the edges of the familiar, we will discover life was never meant to be a destination, but an adventure.
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*Embracing the Light, Fe Langdon, Flickr
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*Lotus of the Heart is a Work of Arem Nahariim-Samadhi ~ a Hospice Chaplain, interspiritual author, writer, poet, and bicyclist. He is someone in love with Life and inviting others to that same ecstasy of Love ~ and, by the way, herein is nothing he claims as his own.
