You know you are a parent when you get to a restaurant and your 6 month old starts crying because he is hungry, but really too hungry to take the time to eat rice cereal. Then, your 2 year old gets that look in his eye and you put your hand out to catch the spit up so that it doesn't go all over his outfit. When I was younger, just looking at someone else get sick would make me get a bad feeling in my stomach. Now, I'm catching it in my hands. Tonight was one of those nights where I was brought back into the now and where my life is.
Abram is living in the "what's next?" Where are these children that God promised? God reassures him that there is still time. And then, God brings him into reality by telling him that these descendants that he so desperately wants will be "aliens in a land that is not theirs." Yes, they will eventually be given the promised land, but for many generations they will be oppressed. Abram, though, will live his days free and die before all of this happens. You gotta wonder if Abram was feeling very mortal at this time and with eyes on the "what's next" had a toe in the now.
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