Time Warp

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

Genesis 29:20 English Standard Version

I have to pause every so often while reading the Bible to make sure that I haven't entered a time warp. Especially in the narrative portions of the Word, a story will be going along at a certain pace and then boom, seven years will pass in a sentence and I don't always notice until the next paragraph, when I'm suddenly confused.

In the story of how Jacob obtains his wives Rachel and her sister Leah, it's very much like that. Each day gets several paragraphs, but as soon as Jacob begins to work for Rachel, suddenly a sentence is seven years, beautifully matching up to how Jacob's heart must have perceived time--his episode of stealing his father's blessing and earning his brother's hatred and running away from home must have dragged and weighed heavily on him, hence the Bible's pages on that. But then he meets his girl, and seven years go by while he dreams of her. Very beautiful.