Dear Father, When Isaac was old and his sight had failed, he asked Esau to prepare a meal so that he might bless him. But Jacob, his twin brother, came disguised as Esau, putting on animal skin, and presented the meal himself. Though Isaac said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau,” he did not discern him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s; so he blessed him. I marvel at the weight of the blessing he gave, even in the midst of uncertainty. Jacob’s voice and Esau’s hands--yet, he blessed him. I find myself pondering how often we, too, get caught in error when faced with weighty decisions in our own lives. We bind ourselves to lifelong endeavors and commitments with less skepticism than such decisions deserve. Yet wrong decisions made under pressure do not annul their consequences. At some point in our lives, we have all been victims of wrong decisions, understandably so, because we cannot always be right. So the problem is not that we are sometimes wrong, but that we are sometimes hasty when making these decisions, as though the thought process for meals should be the same as for choosing a life partner. There is so much that cannot be contained in one letter, Father: strategic thinking, necessary delays, watching and praying. Yet it comes down to this: light processes should not be trusted with heavy decisions. Translations; Slide 1: English Slide 2: French Slide 3: Bengali Slide 4: Hindu Slide 5: Urdu #LettertoGod #decisions #haste #commitments