When someone passes through a Jobean season, there are no simple fixes, no miracle fixes that will reverse the tragedy one is facing. There’s no advice worth giving, no fixing one another, no setting one another straight. The only thing we can offer is kindness and love. In the communal life of the church, there are occasions when a church member has lost a loved one or they are present to watch a dear family member take their last breath.

The complexities of life and death, of sorrow and pain, of contrition and reconciliation are ever-present possibilities and the caring church must allow these things to exist while also testifying of the grace of God and the depths of friendship.

The phrase, “as fate would have it,” is a robust way of observing that sometimes we twist and turn on the events that occur in our lives recognizing that sometimes they are good events and sometimes they’re tragic. But on occasion, more often than we can know, even the tragic events have a tendency to act positively in our regard. Isn’t that how life turns for us as well?

See you Sunday as we peel back the last layer from the amazing, ancient story of Job!

Pastor Keith Herron preaching

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