If you think that the Patriarchs were fine upstanding people, forget it! Jacob is a shyster from the word go. Yet he was one of those chosen by God to receive the promise. Dont you wish that God had better taste sometimes?

Abram and Sarai were living a quiet life when God called them to leave everyone and everything they knew to go to a land that God would show them. Does that sound like a winning proposition to you?

In times of trial and hardship we can miss the grace of God that is right in front of us.

Have you ever started a project that went so far astray it was better to just start all over again? Well, the same thing happened with Gods first attempts at creation. So, God gives the universe and people another chance. That seems to be the very thing God specializes in.

The narratives (yes there are two) of creations tell us more about the who and why of creation than the how and the what. Set alongside the scientific account of creation we get a more complete glimpse of the greatness of God.