Job’s assertion of faith arises when, at the same time, he is doubting God’s justice. Gibran’s poem on death provides insight into this paradox.
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God’s Answer to Job–and to Me
I explore the meaning of God’s answer to Job by applying it to when I lost my oldest son.
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The Always Overflowing Sea
Neruda’s “Ode to the Sea” can also be an exploration of our relationship to God.
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Though Thou Art in Thy Blood, Live
Spiritual Sunday A couple of weeks ago my library reading group discussed Marilynne Robinson’s Lila, the third novel in what one member described as a triptych. I love Robinson’s depiction of the Congregationalist minister John Ames in Gilead, and Lila gives us the backstory of the woman that Ames marries as an old man. (Home, […]
