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Be kin, and be humble. The point isn’t that we have to know it all, we don’t have to explain the origins of suffering, to know the history, the facts, the diagnosis, the treatment plan. We don’t have to know it all, understand it all, justify it all. We don’t even have to experience it all. A commentator I read this week wondered if this could be preached to church like ours, so different from churches throughout the world who gather in secrecy, who endure any number of hardships and calamities, but the thing is, this text doesn’t have to be about us to be for us to be instructive to us, to be the kind of good news that tells us that God sets the world free, that God sets the world to right. Continue Reading