Day Fifteen..."Romance in the Bible"

How about the courtship of Jacob and Rachel? Can you imagine working seven years to obtain her hand in marriage only to discover you would be offered the sister, Leah, instead? Jacob had to work seven additional years after Laban blindsided him. There is romance notice Genesis 29:20..."So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her." We will read more about this story tomorrow. Psalm 15 states the virtue of walking blameless, righteous, speaking from the heart, and no slander with the tongue." (Not a bad list to live by!) Jesus warns, in the Sermon on the Mount, about seeing the speck in someone else's eye, when we have a log in our own eye. Asking, seeking, knocking are ways we grow. In this instance, a persistence in asking gets us through the difficult spots. The ending of today's reading is the Golden Rule. A very solid way of always relating to others.