Joseph is seventeen, the favored son. He brings a bad report about his brothers. Jacob gives him a coat of many colors—visible favoritism. Then come the dreams: sheaves bowing, sun and moon and stars bowing. Even Jacob rebukes him: “Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” The brothers hate him. But Jacob “kept the matter in mind.” Favoritism destroys families. Wisdom knows when to stay silent. And the distance between vision and fulfillment is where faith lives. The dreamer has no idea what stands between him and those bowing sheaves.

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