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ing on a ladder rising to Heaven.
God appears in his dream and
reassures him that the land upon
which he is now resting will be
given to him and his descendants
and that all the families of the
world would see his descendants
as a source of blessing.
Jacob went to sleep thinking he
was in a place of terror and awoke
the next morning knowing that he
stood in a place of awe. He said,
"Surely the Lord is in this place,
and I did not know it."
At some point in every human
life we find ourselves, like Jacob,
living through a crisis — of
danger and doubt. We take a short
walk into a hospital's intensive
care unit to see a loved one in
danger — each step in fear, hop-
ing as we walk, and not knowing
what to expect. Others have
themselves been in that "place of
terror" lying in a hospital bed
wondering, as did Jacob, if they
would survive.
There are other life crises, less
ominous but no less significant,
when we feel frightened and
alone. I think of the man or
woman whose marriage has
ended in divorce; the business-
man whose enterprise has failed;
the mourner who has lost a dear
one; the person in the "middle
years" who yearns to being a new
career; the young family who
moves to a new community in
search of the fulfillment of career
goals.
The dream of Jacob's ladder can
be a symbol for today: the sign of
God's presence.
How do we interpret this sym-
bol? The ladder might be seen first
as the potential of prayer. Just as
angels were ascending and de-
scending the ladder, so can man
join heaven to earth with the
words of prayer. There are people
who can only pray in the bright-
ness of a sunlit day. They can feel
appreciation, but theirs is not the
assurance that remains when all
is gone. An Austrian playwright
once noted: "We know of some
very religious people who came to
doubt • God when a great misfor-
tune befell them, but we have
never yet seen anyone who lost his
faith because an undeserved for-
tune fell to his lot."
To pray like Jacob means to
pray in the dark without being
discouraged and embittered; to
pray because we are saddened but
not broken, burdened but not
crushed. We can draw out of the
depth powers untapped and some-
times even unknown, for we are
stronger than we think. We can
mobilize our deepest reserves
rather than surrender to the
weakness of self-pity.
The nature of Jacob's prayer is
best described in modern terms by
the wise comments of Dr Ab-
raham Joshua Heschel: "God is
the center toward which all forces
tend. He is the Source, and we are
the flowing of His force, the ebb
and flow of His tides . . . In crisis,
in moments of despair, a word of
prayer is like a strap we take hold
of when tottering in a rushing
streetcar which seems to be turn-
ing over."
Perhaps, the ladder is a call to
man to discover the courage

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