For weeks, Clarice read to her about the trials of Job and reminded her that the fifth chapter of Matthew promised “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.” But both of Barbara Jean’s friends had come bearing medicine for the wrong illness. More than courage or piety, what she needed, what she would scour Clarice’s Bible forwards and backwards searching for over the many years that followed, was a clue as to how to get out from under the boulder of guilt that
Bj's friends..clarice and odette brought " medicines" of piety and courage.....not what she needed...she needed scrioture for dealing with grief
