Sublime

The only question is "Are you holding anything back?" God wants to know, "Is there any portion of your heart; is there any portion of your life that you’re holding back from me?" There was a gift that Abraham had reserved that only God could touch. The call of friendship said to Abraham, "If you want to be my friend, you mu

The father of Jacob Wein, who played Benjamin, gave me a book of Jewish legends in which I found the story of the “unknown just.” In every generation, so the legend goes, there are born among the Jews thirty-six men who God has chosen to bear the burden of the world’s suffering, and to whom he has granted the privilege of martyrdom. These men are i

Avraham, the father of the Jewish tradition, discovered the Truth by searching what it meant to be his true self and the responsibilities that come with that, while those around him had fallen to worshiping desires and other false idols.

Abraham uniquely sees that this negation (that loss) might be the very locale for God’s ministering being to come to him.

ABRAHAM’S CALL A vocation is a terrible thing. To be called out of nature into the supernatural life is at first (or perhaps not quite at first—the wrench of the parting may be felt later) a costly honour. Even to be called from one natural level to another is loss as well as gain. Man has difficulties and sorrows which the other primates escape. B