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Between our Steps: Job's Answer

There is no explanation as to why bad things happen to good people. How can we give a healthier context to questions we cannot answer?

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Nov 07, 2024
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“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth…On what were its bases sunk or who laid the cornerstone …” These words are attributed to God in the book of Job in the Hebrew scripture. 

Job had suffered tremendous losses—he lost all his herds to raiders and accidents; his children all died in a…

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Cathy Hird lives between the escarpment and Georgian Bay, the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Retired farmer and United Church minister, Hird writes fiction and creative non-fiction, with seven published fantasy and SciFi novels.
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