Reading my Bible this morning, while enjoying a breakfast wrap I came across Genesis 35:18. At first glance it would be easy to skip over to other verses, but some subtle meaning tugged at my curiosity.
The her in particular is Rachel, the wife of Jacob, whose life-story thus far has been one struggle after another. From just what the Bible informs us of her we learn that she has seen little good. While she was the favored wife of Jacob it was her sister, Leah, that married him first, and it was her sister that God first blessed with children. Soon after bearing children, Jacob, gathers all those of his house and moves back home. While it was home to him it was no doubt foreign to Rachel, not to mention the struggles of helping raise twelve …show more content…
Everyday we encounter people from the time we wake up, until the time we lay down. Our lives touch those of others repeatedly, and often more than once. It is no surprise then that sometimes there is some bleed between us and them. The troubles we face become mixed with the troubles of other people, before long it seems like we are carrying our problems while helping bare the load of others. Rarely does anyone ask for more baggage, everyone already has their own oddities to deal with in life. It comes as a side effect of human interaction, people want to unload some of what they are carrying, to share it with others. The load becomes so great you stop trying to deal with your own just so their trash doesn't cause you to stumble and fall. It is not that people are deliberately trying to push something off on you, it just happens as we interact …show more content…
Does alcoholism run in your family? What about adultery, maybe you have never had a good model of what marriage is to base your own faithfulness on. Perhaps you never developed those crucial relationships with one or both of your parents leaving you knowing only instability, and now you notice that you jump from relationship to relationship always looking for what is missing and only finding poor substitutes to fill the void with. Wherever you live I bet there are families that if mentioned everyone knows who they are and what they are known for. There is one in particular I think of from my own hometown. In high school they were known for various things considered taboo by social norms. Such as a lack of bathing and personal hygiene. Also they were known to embody certain stereotypes such as buying their groceries by the truck load with food stamps yet always with the newest iPhone on the market. What is interesting about this family is that when their children graduated high school around the same time I did, they did not move off in search of higher education to better their own lives. Instead, they stayed there and perpetuated the legacy handed down to them, from their
The her in particular is Rachel, the wife of Jacob, whose life-story thus far has been one struggle after another. From just what the Bible informs us of her we learn that she has seen little good. While she was the favored wife of Jacob it was her sister, Leah, that married him first, and it was her sister that God first blessed with children. Soon after bearing children, Jacob, gathers all those of his house and moves back home. While it was home to him it was no doubt foreign to Rachel, not to mention the struggles of helping raise twelve …show more content…
Everyday we encounter people from the time we wake up, until the time we lay down. Our lives touch those of others repeatedly, and often more than once. It is no surprise then that sometimes there is some bleed between us and them. The troubles we face become mixed with the troubles of other people, before long it seems like we are carrying our problems while helping bare the load of others. Rarely does anyone ask for more baggage, everyone already has their own oddities to deal with in life. It comes as a side effect of human interaction, people want to unload some of what they are carrying, to share it with others. The load becomes so great you stop trying to deal with your own just so their trash doesn't cause you to stumble and fall. It is not that people are deliberately trying to push something off on you, it just happens as we interact …show more content…
Does alcoholism run in your family? What about adultery, maybe you have never had a good model of what marriage is to base your own faithfulness on. Perhaps you never developed those crucial relationships with one or both of your parents leaving you knowing only instability, and now you notice that you jump from relationship to relationship always looking for what is missing and only finding poor substitutes to fill the void with. Wherever you live I bet there are families that if mentioned everyone knows who they are and what they are known for. There is one in particular I think of from my own hometown. In high school they were known for various things considered taboo by social norms. Such as a lack of bathing and personal hygiene. Also they were known to embody certain stereotypes such as buying their groceries by the truck load with food stamps yet always with the newest iPhone on the market. What is interesting about this family is that when their children graduated high school around the same time I did, they did not move off in search of higher education to better their own lives. Instead, they stayed there and perpetuated the legacy handed down to them, from their