How do I find greater wholeness in my life

and in my family’s life?

To appreciate the importance of the Bible

and gain insight about ourselves from it, both Jews and

Christians can use the process of midrash:

The attempt to find contemporary

meaning in the biblical text. The term midrash comes from the

Hebrew root darash which means to seek, search, or demand (meaning from the biblical text). The starting point of our search for

personal meaning is the Bible itself…. Each generation,

each reader, can approach the text anew and draw meaning from

it.
-from Self, Struggle & Change

The stress of late-20th-century living

only brings new variations to timeless personal struggles.

The people described by the biblical writers of Genesis

were in situations and relationships very much like our own,

and their stories still speak to us because they are about the

same basic problems we deal with every day.

Learning from Adam and Eve, can we find

the courage not only to face our other side, but to draw

strength from it? Learning from Leah and Rachel, can we stop

competing with our loved ones, and begin to accept them and

find ourselves? Sarah, Hagar, Lot, Ishmael and Isaac, Rebekkah,

Joseph and his brothers, Jacob and Esau…this vibrant cast

of characters offers us new ways of understanding ourselves and

our families and healing our lives.

A modern master of biblical interpretation

brings us greater understanding of the ancient biblical text,

and of the insights its characters give us about ourselves and

our families today.

By bringing the people in Genesis to

life-husbands and wives, fathers and sons, brothers and

sisters- Self, Struggle & Change shows us how to

find wholeness in our lives.