December 9
The Bent-Knee TimeRARE DIPLOMACY
Never was diplomacy—love’s wooing, winning diplomacy—sent on a harder mission than when Joseph set out to do—what? Be willing to forgive his brothers’ terrible conduct toward himself? No, no; something far different: to make them really broken-hearted to think they should have treated him so. This explains all his rarely keen, subtly shrewd —yet always loving and honest—handling of them, from first to last. This sets the standard for real, full forgiveness.