"Testing of Job"

One of the mysteries of the Bible is God's
testing of Job. He took everything away
from the poor guy but his wife. For years,
scholars have debated why.

Seems to me it's actually rather simple.

After God finished the testing of Job, He
returned twice what He had taken away.
If He had taken Job's wife, that means
God would've had to give him back two wives.

Surely, not even God would have inflicted such
a severe penalty on Job after all he'd been
through.

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"Name Game"

I was shopping in a department store with my
four-year-old grandson. I promised him that we
would go to the toy department, but I stopped
in the ladies' clothing department first.

It seems that he couldn't wait that long: one
second he was holding onto my pant skirt and
the next, he had vanished. I panicked and
looked everywhere, but I couldn't find him.

I went to the customer service desk to have
them announce his name over the P.A. system,
and to my relief he was already there waiting
for me. The woman at the desk told me that
my grandson had asked them to call me over
the P.A., but he didn't know my name, except
"Grandma".

So they asked him what his dad, my son,
called me. He answered "Mom." Then they
asked what his grandpa, my husband, called
me. "Sugar," he replied.

So then they asked what his mommy (my
daughter-in-law) called me. Very clearly, he
said, "The Bitch."

On the way home, we practiced my "real"
name until I was confident that he would
use it the next time!