I Just Want To Be Loved... Is That So Wrong?

"Desperation is a stinky cologne"

-- Police Chief Grady, "Super Troopers," hilarious flick


Chapter 29 of Genesis is all about unrequited love.

Jacob...
"he also loved Rachel more than Leah" (verse 30)

But there is poetic justice:

"And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren." (31)

The first three sons of Leah:

Etymology of Hebrew Names:

Reuben = looking
Simeon = hearing
Levi = closeness, lit. "to me"

Leah had a son, named him Reuben, because "the Lord LOOKED upon my affliction, now therefore my husband will love me." (32)
She named her next son Simeon, "because the Lord HEARD I was hated." (33)

Third son, Levi, because Leah hoped "now this time my husband will be JOINED TO ME." (34)


(Same thing with poor Hagar, Abe's wife, Gen. 16:11)


Poor Leah!

She was the last kid picked last for softball, who had to take her cousin to Prom, who sat next to the teacher on class trips...

Never mind that Leah's offspring were the ancestors of Aaron and the priestly family (from Levi) and King David and his progeny (from Judah)...


Poor Leah, she wanted to be loved!


"Can anybody find me somebody to loo-oove?"
--Freddy Mercury, Queen


"I just want a love for the rest of my life, I wanna hold you in the morning, Hold you through the night"
-- Eminem


Freddy, Eminem, and Leah all share something...

Desperation!

And every single person has felt the same way.


"Jane, get me off this crazy thing... called Love."

-- "So I Married An Axe Murderer"

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