So Job asked
(quite reasonably),
"What the hell?"

And God answered
(equally reasonably),
"Who the hell are you to ask?"

And in the impasse
both realized
the equal need
one of the other. 

So go ahead and ask,
"What the hell?"

And don't be surprised
when God responds,
"I don't answer to you."

And then realize
God needs you
as much as you need God.
And somewhere in this
the reality you both struggle to create
is one and the same.

Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.