Elihu and the chainsawed hoover
from Chapter Seventeen
Welcome back to Chapter Seventeen. This time, a reading from the blog. Elihu and the Chainsawed Hoover. We start in the Book of Job (chapter 32, since you ask), wander off with Bear Grylls, Robinson Crusoe and a few increasingly improbable camera angles, and find ourselves wondering what it really means to be friends with God. Especially when you're fed up. VERY fed up. There's suffering, Jesus, C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, a parasite that becomes a stallion, and a Hoover that doesn't survive the experience entirely intact. Somewhere in all this, we're exploring redemption, Christian imagination, and whether the story of our lives might look rather different from another perspective. Still thinking aloud. Still, it might be true…
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