Isaac and Ishmael bury Abraham

It’s the long view, I believe, that ultimately frees us from the petty and unimportant. There is nothing like death to give perspective.

These half-brothers coming together to bury their father Abraham – astonishing or unsurprising?

As a child, the one has been placed on an alter to be sacrificed. Before that, but at about the same age, the other was turned out without enough food or water to even survive.

Yet here they are, honoring and burying their dead father Abraham.

As they bless his memory they gratefully bless the origin of their very being.   This transcends all. No one is excluded.

Fathers.  We’ve all had them.  None of them was perfect.

God and man and generations.