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God's Whirlwind Answer

"Then the Lord answered Job  out of the whirlwind: 'Who is this that darkens counsel  by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man,  I will question you,  and you shall declare to me.'"  Job 38:1-2 I love a reading a good mystery by authors such as Martin Walker, Louise Penny, and Tana French.  Each of their stories follow a pattern. There is a crime, a cast of characters, and a solution to the crime. Life  can be like that.  A tragedy occurs, a cast of characters surrounds the victim offering comfort, and a resolution appears. Sometimes, though, there doesn't seem to be a conclusion and we ask ourselves, "Where are you God?" When Bad Things Happen to Good People is a book by rabbi Harold Kushner whose son, Aaron, who died at the age of 14 of the incurable genetic disease progeria. Rabbi Kushner asks the question most of us would ask during a tragedy, "Where are you God?" That's what the Book of Job is about: tragedy, characte...