The story of Jacob and the angel he wrestled with during the night is an intriguing one. In an ancient Jewish version of the story the angel asks Jacob for a blessing, not the other way around. Perhaps this indicates that they blessed each other.
Jacob is between what we know of ourselves and the other Self we don’t know. Each has a blessing for the other. Each is a blessing for the other. Wrestling each with each, determined not to release until the blessing wrested and fully given, reveals the name of one (I Am) and changes the name of the other.
Perhaps the wrestling matches in our lives hold potential for blessing both ways. Just as the struggle provides a blessing for our personality, our participating in the struggle may provide a blessing that reaches out into the world.
Ann Glover O’Dell
8 August 2007
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