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  • 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 30:25-43 Family Feud

    Genesis 30:25-43 Family Feud

    After Jacob‘s fourteen years of service to Laban, and his twelve kids, he lets his father-in-law know that it’s time for him to go back home. Laban says that divination told him he’s prospered because of Jacob, so asks him to name his wages. Jacob agrees to take all the spotted and speckled goats and…

  • 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…

  • 90s Summers

    90s Summers

    On the Internet, people were commenting that they wanted to do a summer like the 1990s. So now you get to hear about what I remember from summers growing up.  My mom used to work during day and my dad would be home with in the days over the summer break. He worked the swing…

  • Genesis 28: Wivalry 

    This chapter continues telling about the conflict between adult twins Esau and Jacob.  Their father Isaac, sends the younger one, Jacob, off to Paddan-aram to find a wife from Rebekah’s brother Laban’s family near Haran, the town named for Abraham’s brother. Isaac repeats God’s blessing to Abraham of offspring and nations to Jacob. Isaac specifically…

  • Body of Work

    As I am approaching my fiftieth birthday this year, I was disappointed to see that my weight that had gone down from focused intermittent fasting, has crept back up. For two years, I checked the clock before I let myself eat. Then I quit looking because, honestly, I didn’t have the bandwidth.  Last month was…

  • Genesis 27: #Blessed

    This chapter begins with Isaac feeling his advanced age. He is going blind and he feels like he’s at the end of his life. He tells his oldest son Esau to go out into the field and hunt for game so he can bless him.  Rebekah overhears him and rushes over to her favorite son…