The genius of Jesus’ ministry is that he reveals that God uses tragedy, suffering, pain, betrayal, and death itself (all of which are normally inevitable), not to punish us but, in fact, to bring us to God and to our True Self, which are frequently a simultaneous discovery.
-- Richard Rohr
Is this not true or what? It certainly is descriptive both of my experience and a mode and mood of God that I am so grateful for.
