Endings

Backward Mutters Poetry Podcast · Feb 26, 2025 · 6m · transcript

Good morning! Today is February 26, 2025 and today’s poem is inspired by the ending of the book of Job.

I began writing poems inspired by the book of Job in the fall of 2020 when I preached a series through the book — a book I had avoided because I couldn’t imagine how one could preach forty chapters of poetic dialogue. Thankfully, there are smarter people than me, and I was helped by the books and preachers who have commented on and preached through the book before.

Now there are many opinions about the book of Job and how to read it. My take on one of the great themes the book is coming to…