Bible in 90 days

After being challenged by a friend and a blog I was reading, I decided to try the Bible in 90 days challenge.  I am on day four and am a little behind, but have full intention of keeping  on keeping on.
  This morning I was reading the story about Rachel and Leah.  It was so interesting to me that I have read and heard this story many times and yet I was able to glean something new out of it.  I began to notice that repeatedly, the Bible mentions that Leah was not loved by her husband.  She bore him son after son and it mentions that she had hopes to find favor in her husband's eye after each child was born.  But, very clearly it states he did not love her.  Sad.
What struck me in this was that she never gave up.  She kept on keeping on.  How sad and bitter she must have felt at times and yet she stayed, she did her duty as wife, she raised her children, helped with the home, and was cordial enough with her husband that he gave her children to love and be loved by.  She did not run away when it got hard.
In today's society, some would say she was foolish for staying.  But I think she had a warriors mentality and she was not a quitter.  She blessed her children, her husband, and did not disgrace her family.  What does it mean to lay one's life down for the sake of others?  Jesus was the best example of this.  Thanks be to Him.  And I find in Leah another person we can look to as an example of doing the right thing no matter what.