Life sure has a way of sneaking up on us at times. Joseph thought everything was just fine. Yeah, he was having interesting dreams but he thought nothing of them.
His brothers and father were not especially fond of those dreams that Joseph was having. However, life continued to roll right along until, “All of a sudden!”
All of a sudden Joseph’s brothers are tearing off that beautiful robe that his father, Israel, had bought him, and those same brothers end up throwing Joseph into the bottom of a huge cistern that normally holds water.
I can see Joseph wondering, “What just happened? How did I get here? Life was great and then all of a sudden.