Recognition

(Genesis 37:5-7) Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more. So he said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf."

---------------------------/Recognition (Like Sheaves In A Field)

Even though youre surrounded by eleven people you love
It feels like mediocrity
and
you dreamed about this, about how
fates can change, identities can be shed and destinies come to pass
in an instant transformed
as the life you once knew becomes detritus
blown away in the wind, forever lost
and the advent of the life meant especially for you presents itself
immaculately
and
you were always the least in your own eyes
self deprecating to a fault
but it was like soil encasing a latent recognition
that there’s more to you than meets the eye
remembering
conjecture about you is only dirt in a field
rain in harvest, or a sickle or a plow
that helps you grow
strongly and firmly; taller than the rest
till one day you arise (upright)
and you realize there are no more limitations, or obstructions
to your future...except the ones you allow to stand:
that nothing is accredited to chance anymore
or misftortune or someone else
your sovereignty, your honor, your glory
precedes and chases you now
and everyone around you feels overwhelmingly compelled
to bow down





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(verses 8-11)
And his brothers said to him, "Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me." So he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?" And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.