While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherd. The while he was still talking is the timing of providential encounter — the conversation about the well practices was not idle delay but the setting for Rachel's arrival. The detail that Rachel was a shepherd — a woman tending the flock, a role typically male — anticipates her character: capable, direct, uninhibited by convention. The application: the people God brings into our lives often arrive at exactly the moment when we are still in the middle of something else.

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