Inspired by Two Abrahams

               On Sunday, I listening to the Pastor preach about Abram, who became Abraham, and I thought about the journey that my husband, family and I began that day.  As Abram heard God’s call and responded, my family is embarking on a journey. My husband has accepted a job in another city and our family will have two home bases for the next 20 months or so.  Like Abraham, we are not really sure where this journey will take us.  Well, we know what city, but we do not know how it will change our family, or affect future decisions.  As we leave the greater DC area, will we ever return to live near our Nation’s Capital?  How will this affect our son’s college decision? Perhaps not the most important, who will cut my hair?

               My husband accepted the position because we believe that this is where God is leading him.  While my husband is moving, my son and I will stay in Silver Spring until he graduates from high school. He is beginning his junior year and is very happy, achieving good grades and involved with a variety of activities including the teen group at church.  Fortunately, my husband will be able to come home one or two weekends each month and we will visit him in his new I home for Thanksgiving.

               On Monday, as we drove his belongings to the new city, we stopped at Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood home in southern Indiana. “I will prepare and some day my chance will come,” was a quote that struck me in one of the exhibits. This was written as a young man, living on a farm in Indiana. Lincoln was a man of God who read the Bible frequently.  His life included tragedy (losing his Mom, sister and two children) and he was not always considered successful.  It was a chance trip to Louisiana that inflamed his abhorrence of slavery.  (Or was that trip just part of God’s plan for his life?)

               Lincoln could not have projected the effect his life would have on the nation and on the world, but he could persevere each day, courageously following God’s will for his life.  As his family moved from Indiana to Illinois, did he wonder how his life would change?

               As my family and I begin this new phase of our lives, we ask God for his guidance and for the courage to follow his will. We also ask Mary to cover us with her mantle in this new journey.  While I do not directly compare our journey to that of the two Abrahams, they are a source of inspiration.  

              Have either of these two men call Abraham inspired you?