Ur

No not the stutter ur . . .
The place Ur.
Twice in recent reading I've come across authors using UR as an adjective for a ' defining moment. I realize ur was that experience for abraham, i just never thought of it as a mataphor. But it is a great one, and illustrative of the power of rich language.

Ur was the home of Abraham, The land of his father's - his origin. His defining moments.
4 Therefore I left the land of ^aUr, of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; 

As to ur - when you check the dictionary you find

An example of ur used as a prefix is ur-civilization, the beginning of a civilization.

An example of ur used as a prefix is in the word urlanguage, meaning the original language

defining moment

 

noun

a point at which the essential nature or character of a person,group, etc., is revealed or identified.

So this leads to the question - what was/are your UR moments- what defines you?

Enough about me.  What about you?  Defining moments can apply to anything …go on a mission,  a huge career change.  The decision to get married.  To have kids.   To mend a fence.  To go back to school.  To move to Illinois.  I’d love to hear about your defining moment.  Don’t leave me hanging.