Tents and Altars

Two words keep appearing in the biblical story of Abraham’s life:  tents and altars.  Each word helps  to describe the commitment of Abraham.  Abraham was not a kid.  He had roots and he was established.  The longer that our roots have been growing  the less flexible we become.  God asks Abraham to leave home.  Leave as in go, move, get going.  Yet there would be few words more charged with emotion than the…

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