LOVE SWEET LOVE (29 OF 50)
Scripture: Genesis 29:1-35
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Love Sweet Love (29 of 50)
Series: Genesis
Donald Cantrell
Genesis 29:1–35
Theme: Jacob fell in love at first sight and that love never wavered
I – The Well (1 – 3)
II – The Wonderment (4 – 6)
III – The Watering (7 – 8)
IV – The Woman (9 – 12)
V – The Welcome (13 – 14)
VI – The Wages (15 – 20)
VII – The Wily (21 – 26)
VIII – The Weeks (27 – 30)
IX – The Wombs (31 – 35)
Lost Love
It's very human to begin looking for something and then forget what you're looking for. Tennessee Williams tells a story of someone who forgot the story of Jacob Brodzky, a shy Russian Jew whose father owned a bookstore.
The older Brodzky wanted his son to go to college. The boy, on the other hand, desired nothing but to marry Lila, his childhood sweetheart a French girl as effusive, vital, and ambitious as he was contemplative and retiring.
A couple of months after young Brodzky went to college; his father fell ill and died. The son returned home, buried his father, and married his love. Then the couple moved into the apartment above the bookstore, and Brodzky took over its management. The life of books fit him perfectly, but it cramped her.
She wanted more adventure and she found it, she thought, when she met an agent who praised her beautiful singing voice and enticed her to tour Europe with a vaudeville company. Brodzky was devastated.
At their parting, he reached into his pocket and handed Lila the key to the front door of the bookstore. "You had better keep this," he told her, "because you will want it someday.”
Then he said “Your love is not so much less than mine that you can get away from it. You will come back sometime, and I will be waiting." She kissed him and left. To escape the pain he felt, Brodzky withdrew deep into his bookstore and took to reading as someone else might have taken to drink. He spoke little, did little, and could most times be found at the large desk near the rear of the shop, immersed in his books while he waited ...
Series: Genesis
Donald Cantrell
Genesis 29:1–35
Theme: Jacob fell in love at first sight and that love never wavered
I – The Well (1 – 3)
II – The Wonderment (4 – 6)
III – The Watering (7 – 8)
IV – The Woman (9 – 12)
V – The Welcome (13 – 14)
VI – The Wages (15 – 20)
VII – The Wily (21 – 26)
VIII – The Weeks (27 – 30)
IX – The Wombs (31 – 35)
Lost Love
It's very human to begin looking for something and then forget what you're looking for. Tennessee Williams tells a story of someone who forgot the story of Jacob Brodzky, a shy Russian Jew whose father owned a bookstore.
The older Brodzky wanted his son to go to college. The boy, on the other hand, desired nothing but to marry Lila, his childhood sweetheart a French girl as effusive, vital, and ambitious as he was contemplative and retiring.
A couple of months after young Brodzky went to college; his father fell ill and died. The son returned home, buried his father, and married his love. Then the couple moved into the apartment above the bookstore, and Brodzky took over its management. The life of books fit him perfectly, but it cramped her.
She wanted more adventure and she found it, she thought, when she met an agent who praised her beautiful singing voice and enticed her to tour Europe with a vaudeville company. Brodzky was devastated.
At their parting, he reached into his pocket and handed Lila the key to the front door of the bookstore. "You had better keep this," he told her, "because you will want it someday.”
Then he said “Your love is not so much less than mine that you can get away from it. You will come back sometime, and I will be waiting." She kissed him and left. To escape the pain he felt, Brodzky withdrew deep into his bookstore and took to reading as someone else might have taken to drink. He spoke little, did little, and could most times be found at the large desk near the rear of the shop, immersed in his books while he waited ...
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