This podcast deals with Esau, one of the most disliked characters in the Bible.  Famously, Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of soup and later was cheated out of his father’s blessing.  This outraged him, and further led him to plot his brother’s murder.  Esau had twenty years to wallow in his rage.  Yet, when the time came to meet his brother after two decades he was the model of acceptance, forgiveness, and grace.  There is almost nothing in the story that gives us so much as a hint as to what transformed Esau.  All we have is a detail that when he realized that his parents were upset with his wives, who were outside of the family, he married Abraham’s granddaughter.  There is some ambiguity as to whether this was a move to endear himself to the family or aggravate the situation.  I suggest the former.  Regardless of the reasons for his transformation, though, the scene in which he reconciled with Jacob is perhaps the greatest example of reconciliation in the whole Bible.