Lectio Divina

In today's Matins we read the account of the blessing of Jacob. So...

A younger son receives the blessing of the older son.
His mother clothes him with the clothes of his older brother.
His father smells the smell of the older brother upon him.
He receives the older son's blessing, while the older son receives what can only be called his curse.

And there we are; before our Father, clothed by our mother in the garments of our brother, smelling like him, and the blessing that is His is poured out upon us. The ultimate sweet swap (Schroeder), the blessed exchange that we read about earlier in the week from the Epistle to Diognetus:

Oh, the sweet exchange!
Oh, the incomprehensible handiwork of God!
Oh, the unlooked for kindness:
that, on the one hand, the lawlessness of the many be hidden in the Righteous One,
while, on the other hand, the righteousness of the One justify the many lawless. (Treasury, p. 75)