Popcorn's Patriarchs (and yours)

This fall I am in a Bible study focusing on Genesis and the Patriarchs... Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This is a Beth Moore study that is, as always, very, very enlightening. I "watched", rather listened to the videos on my lappy while driving to the other side of Texas to take my daughter the rest of her worldly possessions. Now I'm knee deep into the text as I work through the weekly sessions. There are five lessons, then a wrap up video to each week's session for a total of 11 weeks.One amazing thing is the name changing that goes on in Genesis and continues to happen throughout the Bible. God changes Abram's name to Abraham. The change is made by adding something to it, a new syllable, a whole new pronunciation. God makes the addition not at the beginning, not at the end, but in the smack dab middle of his name. The very center of Abraham is added to. He adds the Hebrew letter he which makes a sound of breathing out, just as an H does in English. God literally and figuratively breathes Himself into Abram and changes him to Abraham "Father of Multitudes"(Genesis 17:5) With God's breath in him, Abraham is changed not only in name but in possibilities. He is now "father of many"... given the ability to live out the impossible possibility...he's 100 years old for pete's sake. God labeled him the father of many before elderly Sarah had born him one child. Amazing.