Practicing Silence by Bonnie Thurston

Author:Bonnie Thurston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Published: 2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Abram at Haran

—GENESIS 12:1

He was seventy-five years old

and God’s first word to him

was “Go.”

I think of Abram

when my plans go awry,

when happenstance

pries my fingers loose

from the grasping illusion

of control over life.

“Go,” God said to Abram,

giving no address,

disclosing no destination.

Taking an unruly family,

trusting God to show the way,

Abram went.

On that wild journey

he, too, had fingers pried loose,

heard Sarai laugh, learned

the blessing comes

in the going

and the letting go.

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