March 30, 2010 – Genesis 27-27:29

This is a strange way to earn your father's blessing.  It reminds me of Odysseus and his crew getting out of the Cyclops lair.  I think it also shows the influence mothers had on their sons.  You see a lot of that in the Old Testament foreshadowing Mary and her relationship to Jesus and the Catholic devotion to her and asking her to pray for us and take our petitions to her Son.