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Learning from Leah

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Have you ever felt unloved? February has finally rolled around with all it's pink and red, chocolates and flowers, love in the air. Couples going out and having fun just celebrating each other. It's all lovely and sweet, and I love celebrating Valentine's Day. But you want to know something? I've never had a 'Valentine'. And it's not an awful thing. I'm enjoying living in this season of my life, growing closer to God, spending time with friends, and just figuring out who I am. But sometimes I wonder why. Why is no one seemly interested in me? Is something wrong with me? Will I ever have someone love me? I wonder if you have had the same thoughts. Single, married, somewhere in between, we all want to be loved. Leah wanted it too. Remember Leah? As in the Leah in the Bible, who we remember as the unloved, overlooked sister of Rachel. Leah who was given by her father to Jacob first, breaking a promise. Leah, the bad sister that we don'...