JOB

If you have lived life at all you have more than likely received news that you could have lived without...

• the divorce is final
• the baby has health issues
• the cancer is back
• the job is over
• my child has been killed

In Chuckwa's case...his devastating news is that all hope has been dashed... hope of obtaining a new hearing to plead his case and perhaps have the chance to plead guilty to manslaughter versus capital murder.  No nice letter, no kind doctor, no...just words on a card...

denied... without written order

I must say that when I heard the audio clip from Judge Smith, I was a little taken back by the finality of it all.  There was a part of me that thought Chuckwa might really get a break.  I really worried about what would happen when he found out.  I worried that I might actually have to be the one to tell him.  I worried.  What will this terrible news do to the morale of a man who already lives with little.

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"well, guess what?  Let me tell you.  I got notice from the Court of Appeals this morning that my writ was denied.  I don't know for sure what it means that it was "denied without written order" but that's what it says on the card.  So it's on to the next step.  I already got my stuff out and am ready to go to work.  I got to go through everything and get it all sorted out and organized for this next step.  And I've got some studying to do on it.  This is all new to me.  I started to let the news get me down and to just say forget all this stuff, but that feeling went away pretty soon.  I can't give up.  That's not a winning attitude.  I've got all the time in the world to work on it so that is what I am about to get busy on."

I have often wondered what I would do in the instance of having nothing left like Job.  Would I have the will to continue..the faith to endure?  Do you know someone who has lost it all?  I do.  And I believe that the world if full of sympathetic people because some of these things have ALMOST happened to them.  They have almost happened to me and almost is enough to tear you up!

Job 1:13-22
When Job heard this, he tore his clothes and shaved his head because of his great sorrow. He knelt on the ground, then worshiped God  and said:

“We bring nothing at birth; we take nothing with us at death.
The Lord alone gives and takes. Praise the name of the Lord!”