Job 7:8

The questing eye will not detect me,

   Your eye will seek me, but I shall be gone.

(Written 4/5, Posted 4/15)

Is this my credit card come back to haunt me? Somewhere over the weekend I lost it. I lose things all the time, but mostly I find them pretty quick. No such luck this time. Beyond a reward difference while we use a backup, I am out the cost of a shredder too. I had no idea my wife’s card linked to the account had a bunch of metal in it that the shredder could not cut. At least it was not the low light of the weekend; not by a long shot.

I have on the wrong glasses, I am tired at the end of a long day and hoped I could squeeze this in before something else popped up. Maybe next time.

“Questing” could have been “that beholds me”, “that now sees me”, “that has seen me”, or “that gazes on me”. I did not feel that the whole verse set up well with a “now you see me, now you don’t” theme in the first stitch and a “you will look for me and not see me” in the second. I wanted them both to be, you will not see me. Therefore, I went with “questing”. “Detect” could have been “see” or “make me out”.  The “make me out” seemed to make the issue with the beholder and not the beholden and “see” was just too easy.

The second stitch was filled with phrases like “while your eyes are one me, I will be no more” as if Job would disappear while they looked at him. I do not believe this is the intent and I picked the less magical, “you will look for me and I will not be there” idea. Two sources had the idea that Job would no longer be, but I think it only meant he will not be alive as opposed to the previous ask to not exist anymore.

I had a pretty eventful weekend and week. I never felt quite like Job, but I at one point wondered how long will this “turmoil” go on. (At least 7-10 days for the new credit card to arrive.) As I looked at the negative side of each event, I recognized that God had each time carried me through what could have been disastrous or life ending. From the fact I did not hit another car to the nice young man Jason who helped me change to the spare tire, I walked away with a ton of God affirming stories with which to give Him glory. From that perspective, it was a great weekend. There were some really good bits in there too from the risotto to the very positive conversation with an old friend. God has blessed me and will continue to do so as long as I live here on earth, how can I not want to spend it all glorifying Him?