Part 1
Day 1 — Go, on a word
Abram has to go before he knows where to. He sets out not with a map but with a voice, and with promises that all begin with “I will.”
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Lech Lecha in seven days
Seven short readings on the parashah Lech Lecha, one for each aliyah of Genesis 12 to 17. We read along with the Jewish division of the week and ask, at each passage, what it means to live from God's “I will”: not grabbing, but receiving and letting yourself be found.
Part 2
Day 2 — Back to the altar
In Egypt Abram's own solution fails, and God sets right what he bent. He returns to the altar and calls again on the Name.
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Day 3 — Letting go and receiving
Lot chooses what he sees; Abram lets go and then receives what God shows him. Not everything you can grab is what God has for you.
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Day 4 — From whose hand do you receive?
Between two kings Abram receives bread, wine and blessing from Melchizedek. It matters from whose hand you accept your blessing.
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Day 5 — Believing before you see
Abram refuses the goods of Sodom and believes God at His word, questions and all. That trust is counted to him as righteousness.
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Day 6 — The God who finds
God binds Himself to His own word alone, and the same God finds Hagar at the well. You need not find Him; you may let yourself be found.
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Day 7 — Walk before my face
From “go” to “walk before my face.” God gives Abraham a new name and a sign in the flesh: not grabbing, but receiving.
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