Outofur
I have named it Outofur. The name comes from Geneis 11:31. There we read that "Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan."
I went hiking recently on a local foothill called Sumas Mountain. It was a beautiful sunny day and I trudged up a well-worn path called “Gold Mine Trail.”. It was muddy, quiet, green, and steep.
My objective was to finally reach the top. I wanted to get to the summit no matter what. I had tried three other times to walk the four miles, but made wrong turns, ran out of time, and generally got lost and tired. Today was going to be different, I mused. “I will reach the top!”.
And reach it I did; but not without climbing 2000 feet in one mile on a steep grade and a lot of huffing and puffing. A few times, it occurred to me that the trail might lead to nowhere and stop on the middle of the mountain. I thought about turning around. At one point, I stopped to rest a moment and was thinking of quitting. The summit still seemed a long way up the trail. But just as I made up my mind to head down, I saw blue sky through the trees. “Odd” – I thought. I bent down and moved a foot or so up the trail to get a better look. “Could it be?” I took a few more steps. And like the little engine that could, I said “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can” and sure enough 50 yards up trail was the summit and the other side of Summas Mountain with snow covered peaks of larger mountains in the distance. I made it!
The point of it all as I sat on top of the world that day? ….
“Every valley shall be raised up. Every mountain will be made low. The rough ground shall become level. And the rugged places a plain.. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed.”