Great words

"Habits of relinquishment became deeply ingrained in Abraham....Leaving Ur and Haran, leaving Shechem and Bethel, leaving Egypt and Gerar, leaving Beersheba. Leaving, Leaving, Leaving. But every leaving was also a lightening of self, a further cleansing of the toxins of acquisition. A life of getting was slowly but surely replaced by a life of receiving -- receiving the promises, receiving the covenants, receiving the three strangers, receiving Isaac, receiving circumcision, receiving a ram in the thicket -- being transformed into a life that abandons self-sovereignty and embraces God-sovereignty." Relinquishment, toxins of acquisition, getting, receiving, transformation, abandon, embrace....great words....they help me put words to what God has been doing in me. Even though I am speechless....