Permission to Shine Forth
Jacob says to God: Who am I to warrant Your kindness, your faith in me? To continue your Brit, Covenant that started with my grandfather Avraham? Jacob is the Everyman, the archetype of feeling inadequate, insecure, unworthy despite all the objective information to the opposite. Marianne Williamson writes, "(if) we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” And so, Jacob struggles all night with the ISH, the Angel, who holds onto Jacob, who assures him, while he faces his self doubt, his deepest fears, head on, and thereby, by the early morning, becomes Yisrael, the leader, the liberator.
Jacob says to God: Who am I to warrant Your kindness, your faith in me? To continue your Brit, Covenant that started with my grandfather Avraham? Jacob is the Everyman, the archetype of feeling inadequate, insecure, unworthy despite all the objective information to the opposite. Marianne Williamson writes, "(if) we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” And so, Jacob struggles all night with the ISH, the Angel, who holds onto Jacob, who assures him, while he faces his self doubt, his deepest fears, head on, and thereby, by the early morning, becomes Yisrael, the leader, the liberator.