the tale of 2 sisters

he loves me, he loves me not should be the proper title

i love the story of leah and rachel. i have studied it, read it, quoted it and held on to it. i thought i knew everything there is to know about those girls. sometimes when you are a wee bit to close to the situation you miss the main point!

leah and rachel were sisters. leah the older one. not so cute, she is described as having weak eyes. that's nice.

rachel on the other hand is a beauty, i am sure she would have been in fashion mag's...if they had them...

both sisters marry the same dude. but this guy only loves rachel. slap, slap to leah. now we have a love triangle.

leah loves jake
jake loves rachel

leah gets preggers
has a baby, crossing fingers that jake will love her

no love from the hubs
leah has 2 more boys, finally with the 3rd, levi (i love this name) she throws her hands up in the air and says "jake MUST love me now! 3 boys!"

still no love from jake

enter rachel
she has the love from jake, she also has no kids

she cries out to jake with all fem, hormonal, emotions "give me children or i will die!!!" her wise hubs response?
"am i god?" which means "settle your hormonal emotions lady"

are we seeing it?

leah has what rachel wants
racheal has what leah wants

isn't that just life? seriously, how often do we want what someone else has? like a lot! this story has nothing to do with infertility and all that jazz. it's about jealousy, envy and protecting that inner vulnerability that can destroy you.

when rachel got desperate and desperation is just not pretty, she made a huge mess. how often do we do that?

we have a desire, oh we want it. we get desperate, we make stupid decisions based on how we feel. it always leads to a big mess

what is more important? having what we want or trusting god to bring it to us with the attitude of serving god while you wait...

when i was single and waiting, and waiting and waiting....i saw so many friends get desperate and marry men they should have never even dated. they wanted to bad to be married. they settled. their desperation lead them to make stupid decisions

as i re-read the story for the gazillionth time, i read how god remembered rachel and gave her a son...then i skipped ahead to read how she died. rachel died in child birth, hard labour actually. flash back to "give me children or i will die" hummmm interesting....one more interesting thought....god remembered rachel but the same was never said about leah....hummmm....

bottom line. the grass is not greener on the other side, it's actually longer, needs to be mowed and requires more upkeep.

Posted by mel at 9:13 AM