Then Job arose, and rent his mantle and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground and worshiped, Job 1:20. Job chapters 1 and 2 survey the heartrending account of Job’s loss. First, he loses his material wealth and possessions, and then he receives the devastating news that all of his children have died in a desert windstorm. There are still limitations in our language when it comes to grief. For instance, there is a word to describe a child who loses their parents: an orphan. There is a word to describe someone who loses a spouse: a widow.…

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