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  • Genesis 43: High Noon

    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…

  • Two Loves

    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…

  • 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…

  • Genesis 38: Breaking Dawn

    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…

  • Genesis 37: Dream a Little Dream

    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…

  • Genesis 35: Return & Rebellion 

    Genesis 35: Return & Rebellion 

    God calls Jacob to visit the place he first met him in the desert when he ran from Esau. Decades earlier Jacob dreamt of a ladder with angels and made an altar at a place he called Bethel. Jacob tells his family to bathe and leave their foreign gods behind. They hide their idols and…

  • Genesis 34: Dinah

    Genesis 34: Dinah

    If you remember at this time, Jacob/Israel had twelve children: eleven sons and one daughter from Leah named Dinah. A son of Hamor, a Hivite named Shechem, saw her, assaulted her and kidnapped her. He went to his father and asked him to make her his wife.  Jacob and his sons heard that she had…

  • Genesis 33: Home Again

    Genesis 33: Home Again

    After wrestling alone with God, Jacob is now prepared to face his brother Esau. He puts all his babies and their mamas in a line, starting with the servants, then Leah, and finally Rachel and their son Joseph. Jacob then leads his family parade.  Esau runs to meet his estranged twin, embracing him and kissing…

  • Genesis 30 Part 1: Babies Я Us

    Genesis 30 Part 1: Babies Я Us

    Rachel starts the chapter with her husband’s love, but no children and envy for her sister’s four boys. She demands Jacob give her a child or she will die. Dramatic much? He gets mad at her and asks, am I God to close your womb?  Rachel takes her servant Bilhah and makes her sleep with…

  • Genesis 29: False Fiancée

    Jacob completes his long journey to Haran and arrives at the local watering hole, literally. He sees shepherds gathering at a well to water their sheep. Jacob asks if they know his Uncle Laban. They tell him to ask his daughter.  After one look at his shepherdess cousin Rachel, Jacob’s smitten. He rolls away the…