Holding loose
Reading through the life of Abraham this season, with the fresh memory of some of our friends and known people who have gone on from this world due to COVID19 or have faced imminent death and recovered, was challenging. The things we hold on, fight, grapple and struggle with, loses significance in the light of imminence of disease, morbidity and mortality! Abraham in his journey held many things loose. He held his right as uncle to choose what was rightfully his loose ! Genesis 12:8 So Abram said to Lot, “Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Let us part company. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.” He held what was rightfully his reward or remuneration loose ! Genesis 14:21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”