In the letters of Paul to the Romans and the Galatians, as well as in Hebrews we read about the faith of the Old Testament patriarch Abraham. Abraham heard God's call to leave his father's house and to begin a new people and he obeyed. In doing so he earned himself a lofty place in the history of the Judeo-Christian faith. But there ought to be an equal place for Sarah, his wife. After all, think what he put her through.

Ur was a wealthy city, full of ancient society's "movers and shakers." Abraham--or Abram as he was known then--was a wealthy landowner with an honored place in his extended family living in Ur. And Abram asked Sarah, or Sarai as she was known then, to give all that up because he felt God's call. Sarai goes with Abram, but surely she had her doubts. And for many years her …