So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran (Gen 12,4-5)

The caravan traveled through fertile Mesopotamia until it reached north of the Promised Land, the city of Haran, which lies northeast of present-day Aleppo. They were slowly leaving the most developed area of ​​the then civilization between the Euphrates and the Tigris. Here they settled.

They started farming and they did well. Here the scripture speaks for the first, but not the last time, of Abram's property: "... the wealth... and the souls which they have acquired." In Haran, the family became a community, they developed their farms, and more herds and slaves were acquired.

When someone sets out to follow the call of God, he usually experiences great changes in the first phase of the journey and various blessings. We can even assume there is a kind of Charan in every man´s life - it is relatively easy to get to the point where God blesses us, because it seems that we have only gained so far.

In fact, it would even be easier to stay here and enjoy the good gifts we have obtained. Who understands the path of following only in the sense "what good can it bring to me", to him it is too hard to leave his Haran, very hard.