Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

Thanks for joining. I am back with another Snowday episode recorded from my house, so I apologize if the audio quality on this one isn't great, but we're doing it.

And today we're talking about Genesis 29. If you've got to join

the Journey Journal, you know that today we're answering some questions about Jacob's two wives,

Rachel and Leah. Was God okay with this? I want you to think about a time when things didn't play

out as you expected. For me, I'm thinking about our last staff

Christmas party. As a staff, we played games, carnival games that earned us tickets. And then,

at the end of the night, we could put our tickets in boxes that represented prizes that were to be

raffled off. My friend Mel and I put our tickets in a box that was labeled pedicures.

But much to our surprise, the pedicure also included a trip to the beach.

We were shocked.

And when it comes to surprises like that, we love it when things don't go as expected.

But what about when life gets really hard?

You just thought things would be different. Maybe

you're frustrated, you're still single, or you and your spouse are having trouble getting pregnant.

Maybe you thought your kids would be better behaved by now or quit struggling with that same bad choice.

How do you respond when your expectations aren't met? To set the scene for us,

Jacob is at the moment afraid that his brother Esau is going to kill him. So he's fled to live with

his uncle Laban, as his father had suggested. And it's while he's staying with his uncle that he meets

Rachel and Leah. Basically, Jacob's on his's staying with his uncle that he meets Rachel and Leah. Basically,

Jacob's on his way to visit his uncle Laban and he spots his well, this well, at the time he doesn't

know it's his uncles, a well out in a field and sheep are lying all around it. Why were they

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