I was grabbed by a footnote in a book I’m reading. The author was commenting on the blessing it is for us that the book of Job has survived through the years. It is a blessing that “God has willed that this great cry of scandal before the ways of Providence should survive until our days.” He footnotes this statement with:
God has also willed that the only words gathered by the two oldest evangelists from the lips of the dying Jesus were, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mt 27.46; Mk 15.34, so that believers in a state of confusion should never feel that they were intruding, but always find a place to lay down their head in the paradise of Scripture. (Fr. Dominique Barthélemy)
Witnesses to Hope 