A Day for Everything Every day, someone in the United States is celebrating something. There’s Avocado Day, Talk Like a Pirate Day, Bowling Day, Static Electricity Day, Puzzle Day, Sisters Day, Play Your Ukulele Day, Bunsen Burner Day, and more than a thousand others. [1] Most of these days are silly, which is fine as far as it goes, but every once in a while someone comes up with something intriguing. Take Everything You Think Is Wrong Day, which falls on March 15, or Everything You Do Is Right Day, on the 16th. What in the world are they about? After some consideration, I realized that both of them could…
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Nothing Is Personal and the Book of Job
Staring with Job Job took nothing personally. You know Job. He was the “blameless and upright” man from the Hebrew Bible “who feared God and turned away from evil” (Job 1:1). Blessed with a fine home, ten children, many servants, and thousands of sheep, camels, oxen, and donkeys, he was one of God’s favorites. Then one day, God bragged to Satan about how much Job feared and honored Him. “There is no one like him on the earth,” said the deity, “a blameless and upright man” (Job 1:8). Satan wondered if this was really true. “Does Job fear God for nothing?” he asked. “You have blessed the work of his…