κήρυξον τὸν λόγον

You know the question. It is on the hearts, minds, and lips of every child young and old. Why? “Mom, why can’t I have pie for breakfast?”  If you lived in my house, you knew the answer ... “Because Dad ate it all!”  But why? We all are dying to know. Why can’t I drive 55? Other times our children drill us, and we don’t know why. Then, we grow weary of being peppered with why. They want to know why, and they want to know now. And they want to know where, and when, and how? They want to know ... they demand to know ... why you can’t bake another pie. When we refuse to give an answer, it’s not because we’re mean; it’s often because we know something our children don’t. We’ve learned an important lesson in the past ... gained an insight our kids might not understand.  And so ... we offer ... silence.  In our Old Testament reading, Job had asked our heavenly Father, “Why?” ... I suspect it was more like ... Whyyyyyy! And even, WHY ! And he got no answer. ... For 37 chapte...