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Stairway to Heaven
Stairway to Heaven And [Jacob] dreamed that there was a stairway set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it… Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place—and I did not know it!” ~Genesis 28:12, 16
For one more week, our worship service will be built around a story from the Book of Genesis. Isaac, whom we met last week, marries Rebekah, and she has twin sons, Esau and Jacob. Jacob becomes the recipient of God’s promise, but it wasn’t because he was a nice guy. I love Frederick Buechner’s description of him.
The Book of Genesis makes no attempt to conceal the fact that Jacob was, among other things, a crook. What’s more, you get the feeling that whoever wrote up his seamy adventures got a real kick out of them. Twice he cheated his lame-brained brother Esau out of what was coming to him. At least once he took advantage of his old father, Isaac’s, blindness and played him for a sucker…Jacob was never satisfied. He wanted the moon, and if he’d ever managed to bilk heaven out of that, he would have been back the next morning for the stars to go with it. But then one day he learned a marvelous lesson in a marvelous and unexpected way. (Frederick Buechner, Peculiar Treasures)
On Sunday, I will explore that “marvelous lesson” learned “in a marvelous and unexpected way.”
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By First Congregational Church of Southington, CT
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Stairway to Heaven And [Jacob] dreamed that there was a stairway set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it… Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place—and I did not know it!” ~Genesis 28:12, 16
For one more week, our worship service will be built around a story from the Book of Genesis. Isaac, whom we met last week, marries Rebekah, and she has twin sons, Esau and Jacob. Jacob becomes the recipient of God’s promise, but it wasn’t because he was a nice guy. I love Frederick Buechner’s description of him.
The Book of Genesis makes no attempt to conceal the fact that Jacob was, among other things, a crook. What’s more, you get the feeling that whoever wrote up his seamy adventures got a real kick out of them. Twice he cheated his lame-brained brother Esau out of what was coming to him. At least once he took advantage of his old father, Isaac’s, blindness and played him for a sucker…Jacob was never satisfied. He wanted the moon, and if he’d ever managed to bilk heaven out of that, he would have been back the next morning for the stars to go with it. But then one day he learned a marvelous lesson in a marvelous and unexpected way. (Frederick Buechner, Peculiar Treasures)
On Sunday, I will explore that “marvelous lesson” learned “in a marvelous and unexpected way.”