A Michael Dickel poem which captures the deep currents at work in Jacob wrestling with the angel.
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In the Desert Darkness One Has Found Me
Malcolm Guite’s sonnet on Jacob and the Angel mentions the love the simultaneously wounds and heals.
The Eternal Doesn’t Want To Be Bent by Us
Rilke draws on the story of Jacob and the Angel in his poem “The Man Watching.” We grow, he writes, by “being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.”
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