Intersections

  As we’ve been alluding to for a couple of weeks now, our guy Job has finished talking with God, and this week, it’s God’s turn to respond. Now - here’s where we’ve been, as a quick recap of the story the last couple of weeks. Week 1, we learned about Job and how he was a super awesome guy, upright and genuinely faithful. He had lost nearly everything in his life: his children, his business, and his wealth, and then his health was attacked. This is part of the story that the adversary - imagine, again, a dissenter on God’s executive council, wanted to prove that even the most righteous would curse God when their life was reduced to pain and anguish.  Last week , Job talked to his friends, responding to his pain and suffering, wondering where God was in the midst, and thinking that he had been abandoned. Job asked for a meeting with the Almighty so that he could plead his case and be acquitted so that he could be released from suffering. Well - here we are in the third we...

     What’s the strangest thing you’ve eaten? I occasionally like to try new things. There’s been a list around Facebook that lists things like a snake, possum, or famously includes haggis for a few years. For those who don’t know, it’s a traditional Scottish dish, made of sheep’s heart, liver, and lungs, and among spices and other flavorings, but wrapped in the animal’s stomach like a casing for sausage. I don’t mean to turn your stomach so early in the morning, but that is something strange. The weirdest thing that I have ever eaten is blood sausage. I spent Christmas in Norway about fifteen years ago, where it is a traditional dish to make for the holiday. Just even talking about it, I get the memory back. The family I was with waited in anticipation for my reaction and laughed when I didn’t have the nerve to finish. It has a strong flavor, and yet the spices still didn’t cover up the apparent blood taste.       Anyway - I digress. As much as th...