Just hold on
It’s Job’s turn again. Turn to find the words to express his anguish. Again my paraphrase. This time of chapters 6 to 8 of the book of Job. Job: If only you knew. If only...
Monthly Archive: February 2016
Learning from the best
Let me tell you about learning to dance. I’d always been told that I couldn’t dance. That I would never be able to learn to dance. Actually, that’s not true, when I was about...
A language for pain
Job has had it tough. Really tough. He’s lost his children and all of his livestock. He’s covered in a horrific skin disease. And no, he hasn’t turned his back on God or blamed...
God of the good days and the bad days
Yesterday, we saw how Job lost all his animals and all his children and yet still managed not to blame God and to give him praise – “Naked I came from my mother’s womb,...
God gives, God takes.
First day of the month, first chapter of a new book. The book of Job. Which is actually a very old book. Possibly the oldest book in this whole library that we call the...
