The Book of Job

“God forbid!” cried Job – “You treat your enemies like this –

The way You treat Your friends!”

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Did you know

that you are a God picture, walking?

That she is too? –

That he is too? –

but nothing else on this wide earth?

Stripped.
On knees.

Washing feet stained with dirt and sticky with muck

A mother’s life

A neighbor’s life

A Savior’s life.

Here the answer to the cynic’s ache –

your

wary
weary
constant

watch for the
man behind the curtain:

“Hope that does not put to shame.”

Blessing
is a complicated word

a Christian favorite we don’t quite
understand.

For God says,
“Blessed are
the beggarly
the sad
the sober
unassuming
slandered and unlistened-to for Jesus’ sake.”

Hardly, I think,
the kind of blessing
we are asking for.