10. Joseph, the Dreamer (Genesis 37)

Joseph was Jacob's favorite son, born in his old age to his beloved Rachel. As a sign of his special affection, Jacob gave him a coat of many colors, a gesture that sparked deep envy in his ten older brothers. This tension increased when Joseph began to have prophetic dreams where the sun, the moon, and the stars (representing his family) bowed down to him. To his brothers, Joseph was not just "the spoiled one," but someone with pretensions of superiority that they were not willing to tolerate.

One day, when Joseph went to visit his brothers who were pasturing the flock, they decided to get rid of him. First they threw him into an empty cistern and, finally, they sold him as a slave to merchants heading to Egypt. To hide their crime, they stained his colorful coat with goat's blood and made their father believe that a wild animal had devoured him. While Jacob wept inconsolably, Joseph began a journey of suffering and humiliation far from home.

However, Joseph's story teaches us that "God does not abandon His own." Although he was betrayed by his brothers and unjustly accused in Egypt, even ending up in prison, God's grace was with him. His ability to interpret dreams would later lead him before Pharaoh. This account is an announcement of the life of Jesus: both were the apple of their Father's eye, both were betrayed by "their own," sold for a few coins, and through their suffering, ended up becoming the saviors of those who had rejected them.