This time(approximately) a month ago while in the car I had this random idea.
It went along the lines of starting a blog.
30 days later I'm still here with nothing to say and doing it okayish.
Thanks for hanging in there with me.
If it wasn't for the comments and feedback, I would probably be watching TV now.
No loss there for me.
I'm amazed by the power of ignoration.
It is a potent force in the hands of a professional ignorerer. -er.
Today I can confirm something really important.
Almost monumental in stature.
Comparable to not much else I can think of.
There is no smell in the bathroom.
It isn't hiding.
It isn't hidden by something else.
It's gone.
And yes I did have a look in the roof.
And yes I did clean the tastic.
But apart from that I just closed the door and diverted attention.
Cunningly.
I'd like to think that if I didn't do nothing so well the smell may still be here.
But by doing nothing, I actually did something.
Ignoration is bliss.
Genesis 30
I can only imagine what life would be like in the Jacob household.
Two sisters. Two wives.
Going at each other over and over and over.
I understand (sort of) the custom of the wife letting her servant "engage" with her husband when unable to have children.
But in this chapter it just seems way over the top.
Jacob just seems the meat in the sandwich and not the man of the house.
I don't fully appreciate the excitement Rachel and Leah experience when their servants fall pregnant.
I just don't get it.
Is that because of the culture?
And then the deal with the flowers.
They must have been the most amazing fragrant beautiful flowers to trade sleeping with your husband.
Does that identify a lack of true love for Jacob?
Was this just a marriage of convenience?
The chapter finishes with an amazing example of God's blessing to Jacob.
Through all the "stuff" God reminds Jacob of his promises and showers him in goats.
Figuratively showers not literal.
But with literal goats.
A lot of goats.
Just a bonus ponder.
In verse 22 when it says God remembered Rachel,
did He ever really forget her.
Omniscient, omnipresent God forgetting someone?
I don't think so.
So if not it must mean something else.
Being enabled to have children again?
Over to you.
2 comments:
From my understanding, the excitement would have had to do with the fact that the children of the servants were, by surrogate, actually the children of Rachel/Leah.
At least, I think that's what I got told once.
Yep. But would you really be that excited, really? I get that they were "their" kids. But I don't get how you would really be THAT excited in acknowledging how the pregnancy happened.
Cultural context = I don't know.
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