Joseph is Born. Jacob Negotiates

Asynchronicity – how we can be out of time with even our closest beloved?

After all this contention and strife, Joseph is born. Rachel is vindicated. It’s two sentences in the story.

The action moves immediately to Jacob negotiating his wages. Did I miss something?

It’s curious how the satisfaction of this life altering desire for Rachel only seems to provoke Jacob to awareness that he hasn’t really prepared a legacy – that he doesn’t have anything of his own. He seems to feel the need to get to work and start building up his own house.

The ordinary pressures of life have a way of forcing the awareness of what is important. If I can avoid anxiety, this provokes me to enter more fully into the possibility of my life.