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A Pet Poem for Easter
Good morning, listeners. Today’s poem is a poem for Easter. It was originally written in response to a poetry prompt in which we were to write a “pet poem.” At the time I was preaching a series from the book of Job and was thinking a lot about the monsters in that book: Rehab, Behemoth, and Leviathan. I was really taken by the image of Leviathan in Job chapter 41.
Up to that point in the book of Job, Job has been suffering calamities, suffering so-called good friends trying to set him straight, suffering the silence of God, pleading his case, but in Job chapters 38-41 God asks Job some…
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