The Countenance of Laban (2)
This is an updated version of the previous one written many years ago but posted in 2024. It is updated in a ... reversed manner. You'll hopefully see what i mean as you read it. ✝️ ✝️ ✝️ ✝️ ✝️ Life has a way of bringing people across our path, and not all of them come with clean hands or a clean heart. Some people… they are a blessing just by being there, and you feel it without needing to explain it. There is a steadiness about them, something honest, something that lets your spirit rest. And then there are others who do not look harmful at first, not even close, but somewhere along the way something shifts. They leave marks… not the kind you see right away, but the kind you feel later, when something just will not settle right inside you. And you sit there trying to put your finger on it, trying to make sense of it, because nothing on the outside looked wrong. And yet… something was. And then there are people like Laban. He is not just a figure that stayed bac...