What a stark contrast today's scriptuures set before us. In the first reading, Jobs' walking hours are a pointless drudgery, his restless nights an endless wrestling with anxiety. But in today's gospel, Jesus' life is a rich tapestry of contemplative and compassionate service. Let us open our hearts to the challenge of God's word, as it stands in judgment on our own restless anxiety and calls us, in Jesus, to find in a renewed commitment to prayer the strength we need to become, as St. Paul says, "all things to all people" in compassionate service. | 
