Esau is a Nation

…in the land of their possession.

Esau is a nation.  It will live in the hills beside Israel.

The arc remains open.  The possibility of brothers living together in harmony has yet to be achieved.  The ancients have yet to figure this out.  They can’t seem to do it.  There remains something wanting.

It might be that the arc of Genesis is eventually closed and that this sort of harmony is eventually achieved.

But even so, thousands of years later, we find ourselves in largely the same place.  Ambitions and expectations blind me to the person standing only a few feet away, who really longs for harmony and collaboration.  Yet I am happy to remain justified in a spirit of competition and zero sum game.

It really doesn’t matter how much we know.  At some point knowledge must become action.