Reflections

Currently I am reading The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. I didn't think I would really like it, but so many women I know have read it or are reading it. So I figured "what the hay... I'll read it". I am really enjoying this book. I love it... I'm not finished with it yet but I am already missing the charactors and wanting to read more about them.

Sometime over the course of the weekend it dawns on me. The people in the book are people I have known since I was a little girl.

Dinah (the main charactor) has a brother Joseph. Joseph is the boy who was given the groovey coat and was sold as a slave by his own brothers. Dinah's father is Jacob. Jacob is the twin brother of Esau and son of Isaac and Rachel. Isaac is the son of Abraham. Abraham was tested by God and nearly sacrfised Jacob. And when Dinah finds happiness her brother's Simon and Levi kill her beloved and all the men around.

These are all stories that I have known but I never put them together. I never realized that they are all related. I just thought they were random stories. It just never occured to me before that they were all family...

I think this is a must read for anyone...