The Patience of Job

The last 2 days I have read Job17-23. I didn't comment yesterday because I really just wanted to say "ditto" again.
I have always heard the phrase "They have the patience of Job". I Googled that phrase and it said that came out of Job's patience to endure the pain and suffering that was given to him. After reading the first 23 chapters of this book, I don't think that was it at all. I think his patience was shown in the enduring of his miserable comforter friends. I'm wondering why he didn't just send them back where they came from after their first speech....they're what Bill O'Rielly calls bloviators. It's a good thing I wasn't around to expound my great wisdom to Job, or we probably wouldn't have the book.
To be honest, I'm kinda having a hard time motivating myself to get through this book. I'm not rushin' down the stairs each morning to get at it, if you know what I mean. Seriously, I think if I didn't know that chapters 38-41 (where God talks to Job out of the whirlwind) were coming up (which is way cool) and if I didn't know how this book ends....I'd be back in Genesis faster than a high altitude cake can sink in the middle when you take it out of the oven. (That's the only food related analogy I could think of...and it's been a while since I made any kind of reference to my inspiration to do this blog...Julie)
With all that said, I did love reading chapter 19 vs. 25 "For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth". And Chapter 23, vs 12b made the last two days worth it: "I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion of food." I think that verse would be a good sub-title for my blog, Recipe for Change.
Tomorrow is another day, and I will try to have a better attitude about the book of Job. It reminds me of the part in the movie where Julie is lamenting to her husband of having to do the "aspects" of the cookbook. I'm not sure exactly what the "aspects" are referring to, but she didn't want to do them and he tells her to just not do them, who was going to come after her, the aspect police? None of her blog readers would ever know she didn't do them....but she would know. I could tell you I finished the book of Job even if I really hadn't, but then that would be lying, which is something I am not inclined to do. Can you even imagine what will happen when I get to the book of Deuteronomy? TTYL....

***Addendum to the above post****
A few days after this post I was wandering around Barnes and Noble bookstore when I spotted Julia Child's cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". Just out of curiosity I looked in the table of contents to see if I could find any info about those darn "aspects"! I laughed myself silly right there in the store as I discovered "aspects" were actually Aspics...the art of making gelatin out of meat stock. Remember when Julie boiled up the calves leg? Yep. That was an Aspic.
Now I know. And now I know why she didn't want to do them. Can't say that I blame her.
To top this delightful learning experience off, my friend Edie emailed me after she read my posting about the "aspects" and informed me that she laughed herself silly as well. (She already knew what an Aspic was, and knowing her, she's probably boiled one of those calves legs up for dinner...she's the only person I personally know that actually has Julia Child's cookbook) it just goes to show you that real life is funnier than fiction. Growing up, my teachers always referred to me as the class clown....some things never change!