abram of ur

Hannah’s learning about Mesopotamia in History right now. The Fertile Crescent, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Medes and the Persians, and Ur of the Chaldees. Everytime I think of Ur I think of the joke that Dad used to tell during his sermons about Abraham, who was called from Ur without a clear sense of where he’d end up.

So Abraham would meet someone on the road, and they’d ask him, “Where are you from?”

“Ur…”

So they’d say, “Well, where are you going?”

“… I dunno.”