Within a fragile life, where are you?

Job Chapter 14

Even in the rain, life is still breathing.

Job speaks.

“Man is born of a woman,

short of days and full of trouble.”

“He blossoms like a flower,

and withers.”

Human life is short.

It is fragile.

Job looks directly

at this reality.

When people become aware

of their fragility,

they come to a halt.

This is as far as it goes.

No further.

That sense

spreads within.

People long for what continues.

What does not end.

What is not lost.

Yet what stands before them

is a fragile life.

Job is still speaking

toward God.

Not as a defense.

Not as knowledge.

He simply looks

at what is real.

“He blossoms like a flower,

and withers.”

There is no decoration

in these words.

When faced with a fragile life,

what is a person holding on to?

Within this fragile life,

do you remain

inside its ending?

Or do you stand before God,

still holding that fragility?

Job sees

a fragile life.

Without adornment,

just as it is.

Yet he cannot see beyond it.

God was still silent.