Daily lesson for September 17, 2014

Today's daily lesson comes from Job chapter 42 verse 13:

"[Job] also had seven sons and three daughters."

At the tail end of the book of Job, after all his suffering and misery, something happens that needs be remembered. Job has more children. After so much grave loss, including the loss of his older children, Job decides to risk bringing children into this harsh world yet once more.

2014 is a scary time. There have been wars for the past 10 years and there are rumors of wars now. Every time we get onto a plane we are reminded that evil men are plotting heinous schemes against the innocent. We know, above all things, that we are vulnerable. 

And yet, children will be born into this world this week. I have friends who will have their baby before the week is out. I have other friends who had theirs just two weeks ago.

It's a remarkable thing to go on bearing children in such anxious times, to go on having children though we know they will be vulnerable just like we.

It makes me think - what a stunning act of resistance against the dark powers and principalities of this world. To go on bearing children. To go on choosing life. To live!