January 2021
December 3
Day 264: Community It's not hard to read the words of Job's three (later four) friends, and not agree in large part with what they say. They're convinced they're right; they're convinced they're orthodox; and they're convinced they're helping. Job has lost everything dear to him. He's been made a pawn in a contest between […]
December 2
Day 263: We're All Just Tired I've been in two conversations this morning. One local (fellow elders) and the other with a friend on the other coast. Common theme? How tired we all are. Here in town, the wind, the rain, and the many power outages means someone (if not everyone) in the house has […]
December 1
Day 262: Storms Many of us didn't sleep much last night. The big winds kept me awake, listening for what I hoped wouldn't be a large cracking sound, followed by the thud of a tree landing on our roof. Maybe even turning our house into an unintended duplex. It isn't like falling trees are the […]
November 30
Day 261: Willful Departure Job is always an interesting read for me. Is it history? Poetry? Allegory? Morality play? Laced throughout with the predominant question, "Will Job just curse God and die?" Will he depart from the faith he has previously held so dear? He had lost everything dear to him; wealth, possessions, children, reputation […]