Say what you will about Job’s friends. It’s true. Once they started yammering, they wove their strands of talking points between what was true and what they only wished were true until it’s no wonder Job didn’t lash them all together with that rope and walk away, leaving them bound to discuss his plight amongst [...]
Job | Obscurity
April 25, 2012 By 10 Comments
Job 2 Satan’s second stroll through the throne room has tightened a slip knot around my mind these last weeks and I can’t seem to chew through the rope to turn the page. He waltzes in, following along with the angels into a place he clearly doesn’t belong, but presents himself in front of the [...]
Job | Mayhem
March 6, 2012 By 21 Comments
Job 1:13-22 The collapse of the empire of the “greatest man in all the east” did not come all in one moment. Clearly, it took years of hard work and ethical management to reach such a pinnacle. And one can only assume, what with all the just-in-case sacrifices burned on the altar of “I’m not [...]
Job | Trotting Out the Same Old Trick
February 23, 2012 By 13 Comments
The trick worked on Eve, you know. That day, in all the lush plenty of the Garden, with all she ever needed at her fingertips but the one thing withheld just as close, Eve’s delicate foot tripped over the well-toned legs of a beautiful serpent. He seduced with his sweet stroking tongue, dripping easy doubt [...]
