Abram and Sarai’s experience is just one of many, many stories of calls and answers: God’s call and the answers of God’s people down through the ages.
Today’s reading comes from the recitation of the law in Deuteronomy.
How do you describe God’s nature? Down through the ages, people have used expanded language — poetry, metaphor, and simile.
In our reading for today we have Luke’s version of Jesus calling his first disciples — the calling of Simon Peter, James, and John.
Our names are personal. They are extensions of ourselves. They not only identify us to others, but they take on our own identity and we wrap ourselves in them.