In the morning, Jacob realized he had been deceived and betrayed. He was enraged! Rachel was devastated! Jacob, the deceiver, was himself deceived and betrayed. Laban got what he wanted, but he had to use deception, betrayal, and trickery to do so.
Tag: hope
A Woman’s Letter
Would I have compassion if I were to receive a message from Tamar, daughter of a king, in which she shares her deepest secret for her guilt and unspeakable shame? Or, a letter from Esther, an orphan girl, who grew up to become the unlikely queen of a nation?
Perpetrators of Darkness
I delighted to hear the “lumberjack” had discovered that four red oaks, a hackberry, a cherry, and a birch tree had survived! They still had their amor on or they surely would have been destroyed by the bullies.