After the violence with Dinah, God tells Jacob to go to Bethel - the place where he'd first encountered God years before, where he'd made his vow.
I think about returning to the place where things began after you've been through trauma and failure. Jacob can't undo what happened with Dinah. But he can go back to the source, can remind himself of the covenant, can start a new chapter.
After my marriage ended, I went back to the church where I'd first had faith. Not to undo the marriage, but to reconnect with something true before the marriage. The passage suggests that returning isn't regression; it's recalibration. You're different now, but the source is still there.
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