Enduring Loss

Consolemur nos itaque, fratres, nec usque adeo suspiremnus collapsas esse domos, quia videmus reparationem domorum in dominis reservatam. Completum est, ut apparet, etiam in nobis praeceptum illud Domini de servo suo Job; cum agente adversus eum diabolo, terminum poneret persequendi. Ait enim illi, sicut legitur: Omnia quae habet do in manus tuas; sed ipsum ne tangas. Et iterum Ecce trado illum tibi; tantum ab anima ejus te custodi. Qua jussione inimicus accepta, perdita continuo omni ejus substantia, exulceratoque corpore, ab animae se tantum ejus laesione suspendit. Videte, dilectissimi, quantum fragilitati nostrae parcens vindictam erga nos suam Dominus temperavit, ut diversis urbibus, vastatis agris imminutaque substantia, nec animae nostrae, nec corpora laederentur. Idcirco autem magni illius Job putredine vermium corruptum corpus inhorruit; quia ille vir fortis probabatur ad gloriam, nos vero ut infirmi servabamur ad gratiam. Ac proinde non ambigamus posse nobis Deum posterisque nostris amissa reparare, cum videamus, fidelissimo Job, victo tamen diabolo, congeminatas opes, renovata pignora, et saevissimam corporis ejus plagam mirabili sanitate curatam.  Sanctus Maximus Taurinensis, Homilia XCIV, In Reparatione Ecclesiae Mediolanensis Source: Migne PL 57 471c-472a

Let us be consoled, then, brothers, let us no more sigh over the fall of houses, because we know that the restoration of them is reserved to the Lord. It is done to us, so it appears, as was with that command of the Lord concerning Job, when the devil was given a span to assail him. For He said to him, so it reads, 'Everything which he has I give into your hands; but do not touch the man himself.' 1 And again 'I give him to you, only from his soul I ward you.' 2 Which command the enemy accepted and destroyed all his substance, and afflicted his body, from the soul alone suspending his blows. See, beloved, how much the Lord spares our fragility when he tries us by bringing blows against us, that with diverse cities and fields wasted, and property threatened, yet he harms neither our souls nor our bodies. Thus even the body of Job shuddered at its grave putrescence of worms, because he was a strong man who was being proved unto glory, we however being weak were protected by grace. And it is not to be doubted that afterwards God is able to repair for us all our loses, when we see that to the most faithful Job, with victory over the devil, there was a redoubling of wealth, a renewal of promise, and from the savage blows of the body a restoration to health Saint Maximus of Turin, from Homily 94, On The Restoration of the Church of Milan 1.Job 1.12 2 Job 2.6