Isaiah 43:19 (NIV) - "See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland".

Isaiah 43:16-19 (NLT) – “I am the Lord, who opened a way through the waters, making a dry path through the sea. I called forth the mighty army of Egypt with all its chariots and horses. I drew them beneath the waves, and they drowned, their lives snuffed out like a smoldering candlewick. But forget all that – it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland”.

Forget - “to treat with inattention or disregard” – Merriam-Webster

"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all". – Dan Rather

Genesis 12:1 (NLT) - "The Lord said to Abram, 'Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land that I will show you'".

Genesis 12:4 (NIV) - "So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran".

Acts 7:2-3 (NIV) - "The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran. 'Leave your country and your people,' God said, 'and go to the land I will show you'".

Genesis 11:31-32 (NIV) - "Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Harran, 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. But when they came to Harran, they settled there".

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God". – Corrie Ten Boom

Hebrew for “Terah” = “delay”

Hebrews 12:1-2 (NIV) - "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith”.