Abram received his call from...
Abram received his call from God late in life. Robert Raines, in a little book called Going Home (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), tells of how he received a call
from God when he was in his forties:
A call may come as a nudge, glimpse, touch, glance, fresh insight, or tearing
sorrow. It may come in the earthquake of anger, grief, sexual energy, or in a still small
voice. However it comes, the initiative of an alien/friendly power strikes us with surprise
and disruption. I was taken by the scruff of my life and shaken loose from the securities