she’s still going to leave him. It’s a necessary loss, part of the created order, and I at least need to know that. Similarly, when the church board becomes anxious about the budget that’s in the red, the pastor cannot react anxiously by taking on the role of a fund-raiser who fixes the problem. What is called for are the strange poetic statements to the congregation that it needs to give its money not because the church has needs, but because we need to be givers. “Fool, this night thy soul shall