Years later, when Rebekah's son Jacob left home, and she didn't know if she would ever see him again, I'm sure she realized what her own mother had gone through as Rebecca had climbed on a camel and headed off into the unknown.  Able to understand the pain her mother felt at losing her child.  That's part of what growing old is all about.  Understanding what your parents went through.

But that day, the day she left her home, she was excited by what lay ahead.  "And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man (and all of those who had come with him).  And the servant took Rebekah, and went his way."  At least she was able to take some of her maids with her so that she wasn't leaving everyone she had ever known behind.

What happens next makes your heart swell.  Isaac was sitting, meditating in one of his fields, he looked up and saw the caravan of people on camels coming toward him.  Rebecca looked up at almost the same moment, and when she saw him, she asked who he was.  And when the servant told her that it was Isaac, she covered herself with a veil and "...lighted off the camel."  Dirty, dusty from her long ride, she hopped down to meet Isaac.  I can't help but imagine that she covered herself with a veil because she was disheveled.  She wanted Isaac to wait to see what she looked like.  Any woman would want to take a bath and put on clean clothes before she greeted her betrothed!!

Abraham's servant told Isaac all that had been done.  All that he had experienced.  He told him everything about this girl and her family.  And we can assume with certainty that Isaac was pleased with everything he heard, because he did something very touching.  He took her to his mother's tent--not to his own tent.  "And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her, and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death."

Isaac was 37 years old when his mother Sarah died, and he must have been extremely lonely in the ensuing years.  He was her only child.  His father Abraham was very old, and Isaac was sure to have felt his father's pain at losing Sarah--as well as his own.  She was the most important woman in their lives.  I love those words, "...and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death."   By Rebekah.
She was beautiful.  She was descended from his father's people.  And she willingly came to him--to be his wife without ever seeing him.  Who wouldn't love her.  What a beautiful story.