Woe is me!

Job takes center stage in today's readings.

Have you ever had a "Job Day?"

I am right now because I just lost everything I typed.

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However all I have to do is turn on the News and discover the misfortunes of others.

And so often they are borne with patience and courage!

There is a Greek myth: Sisyipus:

A man pushes a rock to the brink of a hill and it keeps roling back over him.

It is not a Christian story because it lacks any element of Hope.

But even Job has a happy development. In my Contemporary Way Of The Cross book, I have this wonderful translation of a Job passage:

"all thrugh these difficult days I keep hoping, waiting for the final change: Resurrection.

...you will watch every step I take, but you will not keep track of my mis steps,

My sins will be stuffed in a sack,

and thrown into the Sea, --sunk in te deep ocean."

Job14:14

And so we pray:

No matter how steep the climb,

no matter how many the obstacles,

enliven us with Hope,

to take the next step, and the next.

For just over the horizon

is Transfiguration.

Amen