Jacob has this desire to return home but is not completely convinced. He is trying to figure out what he wants to do.
A Swiss Theologian, Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905-1988) said, “All great thought springs from a conflict between two eventual insights.”
1. The wound which we find at the heart of everything is finally incurable.
2. Yet, we still try! And, in fact, we are driven to try!
Conflict drives Jacob to see change in his life-going home. Conflict had driven his to seek change by actually running away. Now we find Jacob struggling with the decision of returning home.
Returning home is what we all seek at some point in our life especially when entering the second half of life. Can we identify with the Jacob story up to this point of the story?
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