Genesis 29:31 · World English Bible
Genesis 29:31 Meaning Yahweh Saw That Leah Was Hated
Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
What does Genesis 29:31 mean?
The part of the mind judged unwanted and pushed aside is exactly the part love turns toward first. Where fear withholds its regard, love supplies what is lacking, so that the rejected one becomes fruitful and the favored one waits.
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The part of the mind judged unwanted and pushed aside is exactly the part love turns toward first. Where fear withholds its regard, love supplies what is lacking, so that the rejected one becomes fruitful and the favored one waits.
This reverses the ego's whole scheme of preference. Fear ranks and hates, dividing the mind into the loved and the despised, but love overlooks the hatred entirely and gives to the one condemned. Nothing in the mind is finally abandoned, for what fear casts out, love gathers in and makes whole.
Leah: the part of the mind fear has despised and set aside, the rejected one that love turns toward and makes fruitful Rachel: the favored thought that must wait, shown that fear's preference does not decide where love bestows its gift Womb: the mind's capacity to bring forth, opened by love in the very place that had been counted worthless
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Live Genesis 29:31 today
- Find the thing about yourself you quietly rank as the worst, and instead of fixing it today, just be decent to it for one day. No project, no plan.
- In the group chat or the meeting, find the person nobody is responding to and respond. One real sentence to the one being skipped over.
- When you catch yourself sorting people into the ones worth your attention and the ones who are not, stop the sort. Give the next person in front of you your full face, whichever pile they were in.
Who, or what part of yourself, have you set aside as not worth your warmth?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
The way favors what the world has passed over, the low ground where all the water gathers. What people rank last is often where life actually collects.
Buddhism · metta
Kindness is trained by sending it first to what you would rather turn away from, including in yourself. The part you have exiled is the part the practice is for.
Sufism · Rumi
The wound is where the light enters. What you have judged as the flawed, unwanted piece of your life is the opening, not the obstacle.
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