The story of Job is familiar to all of us - a man whose world was spinning merrily along with everything falling into place suddenly confronted with one misery after another... disaster, death, disease, despair. In some of the most moving poetry ever written, chapter after chapter attempts to deal with the age-old question of why, so often, life is so unfair.

People still wrestle with the issue. Did you happen to catch the season finale of "The West Wing" last week?(1) Great show! The scene was the Washington National Cathedral and President Josiah Bartlet (played wonderfully by Martin Sheen) lashing out at God. The president (who all along has been portrayed as a man of faith) was ranting about life's cruel twists, and in particular the death of his longtime secretary, Dolores Landingham…