The child learns to speak because his father speaks to him. He learns the speech of his father. So we learn to speak to God because God has spoken to us and speaks to us. By means of the speech of the Father in heaven his children learn to speak with him. Repeating God’s own words after him, we begin to pray to him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906-1945, in Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible
In a sense, God writes the ending of every story. This is uniquely significant in the story of Job.
What is the essential thing we need that will allow us to look back on a life well-lived? The bottom-line answer the Bible gives is, “Wisdom.”
The deepest depths of despair can be the times when we see our hope more clearly. Our passage today will focus on what may be Job’s most triumphant expression of faith.
Central Reflections 