Sitting with Job

Job is a book of the bible that, from my point of view, particulary applies to the people who ask the troubling question: "Why?"

In it a rich man, Job, loses his family, possessions, wife, and health. So he asks, "Why?" I have decided to sit with Job for a while.

They (Job's friends) sat with him on the ground

for seven days and seven nights,

and no one spoke a word to him,

for they saw that his suffering was very great

(Job 2:13).

Sometimes like the friends of Job in this scene all I can do is just to be there with a friend and sit for a while. Such just may be the only friendship gift available called "presence".