Genesis 32:24: “Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.”
Jacob is a striver. In the course of his life, he ricochets from one ambition to another, always looking for more.
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St. John of the Cross (1542–1594) was a mystical poet and one of the “Barefoot” Carmelites, who with his lifelong friend Teresa of Avila was involved in attempts to reform the order. He was kidnapped and imprisoned in a cupboard in a Carmelite priory in Toledo, Spain. His escape is at least one impetus for his most famous…
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