“I, Myself, Will Go Down With You”

View from below the cliffs at Petra. (Photo by the author.)

Almost exactly a year ago, I was about two weeks into a One Year Chronological Bible Reading Plan that a Discord group I belong to had started on January 1.

Joseph, the long-lost son of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob, was alive. After over twenty years believing his son was dead, Jacob, in his frail, old age, was confronted by the startling proposition to leave Canaan, the land he’d known all his life, and…