Monday, November 9, 2020

A great earthquake struck Lisbon, Portugal, destroying much of the city including the courthouse of the Inquisition.

“And Abraham was elderly, come into days.” (Genesis 24:1)

Abraham, we are told, was not just elderly, but “come into days.” Meaning, he had entered into his days, every one of them.

Whatever it was he needed to do, whether to teach wisdom or to graze sheep, to throw himself into fire or to feed hungry strangers, to command or to obey, to love or to fight—in every act of life he invested his entire being.

And so he owned every day of his life. His life was his.