What is the burn beneath your burnout?
Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah….When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless. Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.” (Genesis 29:30-32)
With Mother's Day right around the corner, I want to spend the next few weeks studying some of the working women of the Bible and what they can teach women and men about our own work today.
Before we look at the women in this series who built businesses, led armies, and negotiated with kings, I want to start with Leah: a woman whose primary work was raising children. Because if we're going to truly talk about faith and work, we can’t ignore the fact that some of our hardest, most consequential work is the work of parenting. And Leah has something to teach every worker—paid or unpaid—about the most dangerous trap in...
