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Genesis 48: Double Blessing
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Genesis 46: Leaving Canaan
The wagons from Egypt arrive to carry everyone out of the wilderness. Israel offers sacrifices to God at the place Abraham planted the Tamarisk tree called Beersheba. God communicates with him assurances about going to Egypt. God tells Israel that his family will transform into a Nation. He promises to bring them back out again,…
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Genesis 45: The Big Reveal
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Genesis 44: Cup Confessions
In the morning after feasting and drinking, Judah and his ten brothers, including Simeon and Benjamin start on their journey home with bags bursting with grain. What they don’t know is that Joseph has put silver in their grain bags and his own drinking cup into Benjamin’s bag. You’d think after last time they’d check. …
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Genesis 43: High Noon
As the famine grinds on, Jacob and his extended family deplete their stockpiles. Jacob tells his sons to go back to Egypt and get more grain. They remind him that they have to bring Benjamin with them. Jacob, perhaps returning to his playbook for winning back his own angry brother, tells them to make a…
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Two Loves
Did I rewatch all the Hunger Games movies over the last two weeks? Yes. Again, seeing the character arcs as an older adult gives some additional perspective. Now let’s talk romance. Gale is objectively hotter and smarter than Peeta but, ultimately Katniss rejects him. Here’s why. In the beginning, Gale and Katniss have a genuine…
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Today’s Hunger Games
Netflix is showing all the Hunger Games movies in anticipation of the second prequel come out in theaters. I first read the Suzanne Collins’s series as a young adult, so of course, I imagined myself as one of the main characters, i.e. Katniss. Now, as a mom folding laundry, I am rewatching them from the…
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Genesis 38: Breaking Dawn
In case you’re under the impression that the Old Testament is shy about human sexuality, here is a rated R story that is fully cancelable by modern standards. Leah’s fourth son, Judah had three sons with Shua, a Canaanite, who named them Er, Onan and Shelah. A young woman named Tamar is married the eldest…
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Genesis 37: Dream a Little Dream
The focus of the narrative now shifts from Israel, formally known as Jacob, to his eleventh son Joseph while the family is living as shepherds and farmers in Hebron. Joseph is seventeen in this story. His oldest half-brother, Ruben, is about ten years older than Joseph and is one of Leah’s six sons. There were…
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Genesis 35: Return & Rebellion
