Choices

Lots of times it feels like we don’t have a choice in what happens to us – certainly not a choice in whether life brings us blessings or curses. And yet Moses’ words today challenge that feeling. You get a choice, he says – will you do the things that bring life or the things [...]

Jacob’s sports injury

If you’ve ever had a significant injury or even just overused a body part, you know that it is never quite exactly the same afterward.  Maybe there is a scar than you can see, on the skin. Maybe there is scar tissue inside that doesn’t work the same way. Maybe that joint or muscle just [...]

Bless you, my son

Well, this is interesting. After all that scuffle about who’s getting what blessing, when Rebekah tells Jacob she doesn’t want Jacob to marry a Hittite woman (like Esau did), Jacob calls Isaac and… blesses him again.  He sets Jacob up as the inheritor of Abraham’s blessing – to be the father of nations, of God’s [...]

Be careful what you wish

Yesterday Isaac blessed Jacob, thinking he was blessing Esau.  He wished for his son not just good things that Jacob could enjoy himself or with his family – he wished that this son would be master to his brothers, that he would have and be better than anyone else. Today, Isaac learns that his blessing [...]