Morning Light
From Genesis 32: The same night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
At the riverside alone at night, Jacob wrestles with an unknown power, in the end revealed to be God.
The divine can lurk at the water's edge. Jacob limped across the Jabbok in the morning light, with a new name and a blessing, Israel.
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