24/3/2018
Hi, Glad to be back after a busy week getting ready for Easter. We're up to Genesis Ch 29 now where Isaac has left his homeland to find a wife at his cousin Laban's home. He get's to the well (well's seem to be like our local pubs used to be. It's the place to hang out and find information and hear the gossip, or pick someone up) Rachael was a shepherdess and led her flock to the well for watering. But there was some rule that all the sheep had to be there before the big stone covering the well, could be removed. Anyway it was love at first sight for Isaac when he saw Rachael and he moved the stone himself, so Rachael's sheep had water. Rachael took Isaac back to her home and an arrangement was made for Isaac to marry Laban's daughter after he had worked for him for 7 years. The day of the wedding came and the bride wore a veil. The next morning when Isaac woke up he discovered that he had married Rachael's older sister Leah. Laban just casually announced that it was the custom for the eldest to be married first (well he could have said that before, the devious Fox). So a second deal was made for Isaac to work for another 7 years before he could marry Rachael. Such was his love for Rachael, that he was willing to agree. How many guys do you know would be willing to wait & work for 14 years in order to marry the woman he loved. That was more powerful than Laban's deception. Love and patience conquer all in the end.
Bye for now
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