Lech L'cha 5774

“Lech-l’cha – get going,” God says to Abram.   “You’ve been resting long enough, and there is important work to do.  It will not wait.  Leave the past behind.  It is over and done and no longer serves you.  Set out on the path that all have walked – the one that leads to the future.  You cannot know what awaits you, what you will encounter or whom you will become, but you cannot stay here, in this present moment, any longer.  See?  The moment is passed already.  Now get moving.”
With the simple words “lech l’cha,” God moves Abram our father from the safety of what he knows to the danger of what he does not.  God moves Abram from the complacency of what is to the wonder of what could be.  In so doing, God requires of Abram that he become more than a man.  God requires a hero, one who accepts and fulfills his quest, showing humanity what’s possible.
In launching out, Abram becomes a model for each of us who have followed in his sandy steps.  He inspires us to find what the future has in store, create our own possibilities, and live the lives we wish to live. We can become the greatest possible versions of ourselves.
Abram is our father and our role model, and we are his sons and daughters, when we become aware that we are perpetually in the process of becoming, and that we can go anywhere and become anyone at all. 
Step off the curb.  Step into uncertainty.  Step out of your comfort zone.  Start becoming your fullest self.
It all begins with a single step.  What’s yours?