Who are we travelling with?
Stand at the arrivals or departures areas at an airport for a while, and you will see that journeys are not only about place, they are about people. People we have to leave, people we are travelling to. People whose lives have changed while we have gone, and the changes in our lives since we saw them last. Sometimes it is the people in our lives that trigger our travels. That was the case for Jacob, Abraham's grandson, whose relationship with his brother Esau eventually drove him away. Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching, then I will kill my brother Jacob." But the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah; so she sent and called her younger son Jacob and said to him, "Your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran." Genesis 27: 41...