Jul 13 2006

Genesis 29:15-30

Category: Genesis All Over Againdryvetyme @ 9:48 pm


Jacob Marries Twice
Or
Laban Plays Rebekah to Jacob’s Isaac
Or
The Youngest Was the Most Loved

Our passions can be quite conniving at times. They have this uncanny ability to dominate the direction our lives at the mere mention of anything that might tickle their fancy. And there’s often something rather fleeting about many of these seemingly random passions of ours in that they rarely have the tendency to stay around for very long. However, what’s easily the scariest about our passions is that there are some that remain a very long time and revel in their capacity to permanently blind us to the actual events taking place in our lives. We think that we have them under control, referring to them as things we “like” or “love,” when, in reality, our passions are dictating to us the terms of any given interaction, whether public or private.
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Jul 13 2006

Broken Conceptions

Category: Uncategorizeddryvetyme @ 4:46 pm


It’s so hard sometimes to actually
get a grasp of what actually
needs to be done.

I struggle with gaining even the
merest foothold on my future, much
less what’s currently under the sun.

And more than anything, there’s this
ever-widening gap between what I
know and what I don’t.

It’s as if, no matter how hard I might
try, push, cajole, & press for more,
the answers don’t come. They just won’t.
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