Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. The scene is domestic and ordinary — cooking, hunger, return from the field. The ordinariness of the setting contrasts with the magnitude of what is about to happen: a birthright will be exchanged for a bowl of stew. The application: the decisions that define a person's trajectory are often made in ordinary moments of hunger and impatience, not in dramatic crisis-moments where the stakes are obvious.

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