Job 38:31-33 – 31:
“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades,
or loose the cords of Orion?
Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season,
or can you guide the Bear with its children?
Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?
Can you establish their rule on the earth?”
Meditation
My original intent was to read from the Five Scrolls and pray to one of the major themes I read from each of these. But our cycle is seven days and not five. So I thought that I would bookend with another book from the Writings and one of the most important books of the Bible, the Book of Job. Job has asked of God for an accounting of his life and of the plagues that have befallen him. In answer to this question, God speaks to Job from the whirlwind, saying that the cosmos that God has created and ordered is much bigger than any individual. In a sense the answer is no answer at all. But the terrible beauty of creation becomes its own answer. Why is there creation rather than no creation? Because the cosmos is beloved of God. Our role is to love creation as God first loved us. Thanks be to God.
Let us pray … God who is parent to all of the Cosmos: We thank you for stars and planets, for seeds and for soil. We thank you for the power of the ocean and for the tiniest flakes of snow. We thank you for the ox and for the wren. We thank you for the food that sustains us. We thank you for your Word that nourishes us. We ask that we might find our place in creation in all we say and do and live. Amen.
