Do You Have a Critical Eye?

Do You Have a Critical Eye?

If you were to describe your outlook on life, what would it be? Are you generally pleased with what you see? Do you view everything (and everyone) through the lens of, shall we say, making improvements? I have suffered from time to time from the condition known as The...
A Quick Note on Job and Brussels Sprouts

A Quick Note on Job and Brussels Sprouts

“I am,” said Anne of Green Gables in a moment of adolescent woe, “in the depths of despair!’ One of the interesting things about being human is this: the necessity of being served from a great many and varied dishes on the table of life. It is...
Is it Time to Audit Your Front Row?

Is it Time to Audit Your Front Row?

Life is a theater, so invite your audience carefully. Not everyone should be given a seat in the front row of our lives. Some years ago, the speaker at our annual women’s retreat opened with this quote. The idea of being mindful of the people we allow to exert...
Where am I When it Hurts?

Where am I When it Hurts?

One day the members of the heavenly court came to present themselves before the LORD, and the Accuser, Satan, came with them. Job 1:6   Sounds Tolkienesque, doesn’t it? Angelic beings are called to the court of the great God, Jehovah. The vast multitude stands...
Job and His Book

Job and His Book

Since in this life the righteous certainly are not saved from evil, it follows that their ways are watched, and their sufferings recorded, with a view to a future and perfect manifestation of the Divine justice.  Canon Cook Some years ago, not long after I initially...