Genesis 25:19-34 When we were little, my older sister and I told our youngest sister that our parents found her in a garbage can and brought her home. We only told her that because she was young enough and innocent enough to believe it and it amused us that she believed it. We convinced her also that her duty as the youngest child was to wait on us; run down to the kitchen and get us a snack if we were hungry, even run down to the 7-Eleven if we had a sudden craving for Doritos or Laffy-Taffy. We were bad. It’s the natural order of things that older siblings dominate the younger ones because they can. They’re bigger, smarter, stronger … for a while. Later, when things even out; when the younger siblings are as big and strong and smart as the older siblings, they’re still dominated by the […]
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