(Poem)
Leah, don’t you know how beautiful you are inwardly? Even though those eyes are sad and weak outwardly? Leah, I know you’re tired of carrying the responsibility of the household on your shoulder, because you’re older and some times it gets real heavy like a boulder. Lonely with no one that TRULY loves you, those nights are colder.
Leah, life seems to make you invisible when you walk next to your beautiful sister. You say heeeyy Mr.!!! Can’t you see? Its me It’s Lee! I’m beautiful too inwardly. My father trick a man to marry me so he sold My husband doesn’t love me and my sister HATES me. God all those that are close to me has forsaken Lee. I just want to lay down and die! Oh God please hear my cry.
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In Genesis 29, the story is really focused on Jacob and Rachel, it’s a love story that’s seems so sweet. Jacob has traveled all these miles to find his relatives house, only to find his true love at first sight!! Rachel is actually his first cousin, she is the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban. That was biblical tradition and practice back then to marry into the family ( I won’t even touch this right now). He was so in love with this Rachel that he worked 7 years for his uncle to gain her hand in marriage.
The bible says that there were two sisters Leah the oldest and Rachel who was the youngest. The bible states that Leah had delicate eyes, some say that they were unattractive ( ugly) or that she was cross eyed. How ever Rachel was beautiful in every form.
Jacob does the 7 years work and there is a feast for the new bride and groom. Now after its all said and done Jacob is more than ready to consecrate the marriage with his lovely wife Rachel. So when Jacob went into the dark tent drunk and in love he was ready for the love making and it happened. He woke up that morning hung over, excited and overjoyed also that after 7 years of waiting he finally got the woman of his dreams (Ladies don’t ever believe a man won’t wait for you, because if he loves you he will wait). But it wasn’t Rachel, it was weak eyed Leah. Jacob was livid! He asked his uncle why did you do this to me? Why did you deceive me? I worked 7 years like you asked for Rachel, but instead you trick me and make me sleep with Leah?
The uncle states that it’s custom for the oldest to marry first, also to stay with her until the week of the festival of marriage is over and serve me yet another 7 years and you can have Rachel after. Jacob loved Rachel so much that he reluctantly agreed. Can you imagine how Leah is feeling at this point and time? Her father abandoned, pimped and sold her, her sister hates her for taking her husband, the man she married loves another woman (her sister). I can’t imagine that type of rejection and pain at one time in one household. What kind of father would just give his daughter away to a man that doesn’t want or even love her? Just for his selfish gain. His job was to protect, cover and fight for her.
Time goes by and Leah get pregnant a few times with all boys, and every time she gave birth she names her sons based on the hopes that her husband will love and notice her, but it never happens. It wasn’t until her 4th son Judah, (which means give God praise) that God spared her heart and womb by leaving her barren because she was just sex to him. He is just using her to quench his sexual appetite until he gets his sweet Rachel. All he wants is his beautiful Rachel. Is that you? Are you just a thirst quencher? An appetite filler? Stop being the appetizer and carry yourself as the MAIN COURSE.
I can go on and on about this biblical story but I’ll stop right here and you can read the rest for yourself. When I read this story it hurt me so much because I was once Leah, I had sex with men thinking that sex would keep him and that he would fall in love with me once he saw that I was a good woman; Boy was I wrong. Thank God I grew out of that theory real quick. I noticed that there are a lot more Leah’s out here than there are Rachel’s. Woman who are abandoned by their fathers, woman who are not very pretty outwardly, but are beautiful inwardly if someone would take the time to notice her. Woman having babies out of wedlock thinking and hoping it will keep the man. Woman that are out here sleeping with other woman husbands and boyfriends because they are too broken and insecure inside to believe they deserve their own husband. Woman are fighting each other over a man instead of leaving him alone. Woman who are tired of being hated and just want to be loved. Woman raising children alone, woman who are in bad relationships, marriages because they are unequally yolk but don’t know how to get out. Woman who are sleeping with men that they know have no intentions of making them his wife let alone his girl. Woman who call on God for help but it seems as if the only man that ever loved her, He too doesn’t hears her. Honey, God is not a man that He should lie, Nor a son of man that he should repent (Numbers 23:19). My God, there is so much wisdom and lessons in this story it isn’t funny.
What I want you to know Leah is that God hears your cry. Just like He heard her in the bible. In Genesis 29:31 it says that God saw that Leah was hated, so He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. Wow Rachel was a beautiful seedless fruit. These two SISTERS were envy of each other and competing with each other from birth now for the love of a man. Sounds familiar?? It should because you know you are mad at your child’s father right now for leaving you and choosing HER. So to get him back and punish him, you keep his child away from him claiming you don’t want HER around your child. This is so childish and wrong on your part; You are using your child as a pawn in a game that you lost a long time ago. Then you get mad because that man isn’t choosing his child over his girlfriend, but in reality he really isn’t choosing HER over YOU!! You won’t see it that way because through your bitter eyes it’s him rejecting his child. Leah, who has done you wrong in your life that you have to fight for someone that was never yours? You weren’t created to have to fight for his love and to prove that you are a good woman or good enough, you were created to be loved and adored. Don’t be BITTER be BETTER.
Leah, God hears your cries from the open window as you lay with your head buried in your tear stained pillow, Leah God heard your cries when he first hit you and God Heard his lies when he said that he wouldn’t do it again. Leah, God hears your cries that come from deep within, from the self hate you have for yourself. Leah God hears your cries when depression and bipolar seems to haunt you in the day and well into the night. Leah God heard your cries from your mothers womb, when she tried to abort you but it didn’t work. Leah God heard your cry when you were molested, raped and physically beaten. Leah God hears your cries as you tried to take your own life, Leah Leah Leah Leah!!! God will never leave you nor forsake you, He built you so strong yet gentle, you are not easily broken but you are pliable. Yes things in life will gut punch you and bend you over, but you WILL NEVER BREAK!! That divorce will not break you,that breakup will not break you, depression will not break you, being a single mother will not break you, being alone will not break you because Leah God hears your cries.
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. (Lam 3:48)
Tears are nothing more than inward cleanse of a hurting soul. Water is purification that is necessary to make something clean and like new again. Tears of water is restoration, renewing of the mind and heart. Once the tears have stopped,( and they will stop always stop) you will feel better and stronger.
Leah beauty is your name, You are enough and if he doesn’t see it, another man will. Please rest in the Lord and find peace in His loving arms. Love yourself more than you love that man and love God more than you love yourself because God loves you more than you or any man can ever love you.
Shawna Seymore,
Founder, S.O.W ( Sisters Of Worth) Empowerment Group,
Life Coach, Minister, Motivational Speaker

