A man on the run encounters God, wrestles with Him, and lives to tell the tale. Remarkably, Jacob walks away not only with a busted hip but with a divine blessing. What does this mean for us in the ways we also wrestle with God? How may we be broken and how may we be…
Today’s reading from Genesis reads like a good old fashioned reality tv show. After requiring Jacob to work seven years for his younger daughter’s hand in marriage, Laban substituted his older daughter Leah-and Jacob didn’t discover the deception until the morning after his wedding night. Some men would have given up. Jacob on the other…