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AugA portrait of Beck as a future priest
Meet Beck. She is soon to be ordained an Anglican priest. Next week. Soon thereafter, she will be marrying one of her best friends. Beck’s origines are in the Old Testament. Asked about her favorite passages from the Bible, she answers with “the Words of the Preacher, the son of David, King of Jerusalem” (Ecclesiastes). Perhaps because it is the book that begins stating the fact that even the book is vanity; filling up an empty (lat. ‘vanus’) book with something meaningful or simply full, is what the Preacher does: “I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith”. Hence, Beck.
Job is the other book. Beck is calm and prodigiously serious. She lacks her fourth cervical vertebra, what gives her a calmer, even more serious aspect. “Then Job answered to the Lord” (Job, 42:1). But then, when someone is given the opportunity of answering to the Lord, what does he or she answer? Does Beck answer to the Lord “I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.” Or does she turn inside her, with the open eye, and answers the Lord by asking him how time changes the content of Job’s patience.
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