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The first speller, one of the younger middle schoolers, was given the word grape. It seemed like the students, teachers, and parents in attendance at the spelling bee all exhaled at once. This was an easy one, a warm-up. Still, I found myself spelling it along in my head with the student, g-r-a-p-e. All the words in the first round felt easy. Then one student was given raisin. Remember it ends in i-n, not e-n, I whispered in my head. . . . Whew, they got it. Nice job.

The high school youth group I attended with my boyfriend before I became a Christian was at one point studying the book of Job. I couldn’t find this apparent vocational guide in the new NIV Study Bible my mom bought me for Christmas. It seemed weird to me that it wasn’t the book of Jobs, unless maybe there was just one job that was appropriate for Christians? It was time to turn to the book of Job, but, alas, the Bible’s table of contents was not alphabetical. I didn’t grow up performing “sword drills” in Sunday school classes, and, if you must know, I didn’t know, at first, that “Job” was pronounced J-OH-B, not J-AH-B.