LEARNING TO ACCEPT WHAT LIFE GIVES US, BEYOND OUR OWN AMBITIONS

Greetings and welcome dear readers, this delivery may be far from the type of content I usually share, but I find it interesting to try to diversify my blog and at the same time generate some substantial contribution to the individual growth of each person who accompanies me on this journey we call writing.

I will start this post with a biblical story composed by Jacob, Rachel, Leah and Laban. To enter in context it is necessary to understand that Laban is the father of Leah (eldest daughter) and Rachel (youngest daughter), it happens that Jacob being a relative of Laban, falls in love with Rachel for whom he was willing to work for 7 years, without benefits, on the condition that after that time, he could marry Rachel.

By circumstances of life, Jacob had deceived his own father and it seems that destiny would do the same thing to him, so that after 7 years of work, the long awaited and longed for moment arrives for this man.

Consequently, Laban arranges the ceremony for Jacob to dispossess his daughter, however, in the matter of life, Jacob does not manage to visualize the face of his wife, until the next day, once the marriage had been consummated, to Jacob's surprise, the wife with whom he had dawned was not Rachel but her sister Leah.

The man dismayed by what happened, approaches and in a form of complaint asks Laban, the reason for the deception, if he had worked for his daughter Rachel and he replied that according to the customs, first the older daughter is given and then the younger, that if you want to dispose of Rachel he must work for another 7 years, which he accepted and did so. (If you want to deepen the story you can go to Genesis 29).

Under the above scenario, sometimes we long for many aspects of life and underestimate what it gives us, in this sense, and in the form of analogy Rachel will represent what is desired and Read what God or life has given us without any request.

Therefore, beyond the circumstances of life, crisis, failures and turbulent times, we must put the best face and take advantage of these scenarios as Jacob did, who worked another 7 years for his Rachel, without abandoning what life had given him (Leah), so that with a proper attitude, the circumstance that we do not want, ends up becoming blessings and prosperity for the life of a person.

In such a way, we must learn to take advantage of any scenario of our existence, without ceasing to think about our dreams and our ambitions, just as Jacob did who with the passing of time managed to marry Rachel and ended up living with the two sisters, that is, with the desired and with the unexpected, making the desired of greater value since we focus and work hard to achieve it.

So the call is for you dear reader, do not despise the Lea that life has given you, on the contrary, use her to reach the Rachel you are looking for. In this sense, I would like to know your opinion about this experience.

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