Abraham returns to his servants and they set out together for Beersheba, where Abraham stays. The narrative moves on — the descent from the mountain, the reunion with the servants, the return to Beersheba. The extraordinary becomes ordinary: Abraham goes home. The return to the everyday after the extraordinary encounter with God is the shape of most spiritual experience. The great test resolved, the deep covenant confirmed, Abraham goes back to where he lives. The application: the return to ordinary life after a mountaintop experience is not a spiritual descent. It is the life that will be shaped by what happened on the mountain.

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