Lenten Thoughts:
Fully God and fully human.
The Author of all things went through agony and doubt.
The Creator of the world we have grown to know so well also knows how we feel when we suffer and hurt.
How can we imagine such contradiction?
Can we assimilate it in our minds and hearts?
The world tells us that there are other easier gods to follow. Easier methods and roads to take. The world tells us we can pick and choose our religion cafeteria style. Selecting the pieces we think are important and we want to live by, and passing by the others things that don't sound too appealing.
It's all or nothing. Don't be half-hearted creatures (to borrow C.S. Lewis's phrase).
There is no other God that will put himself into such a contradiction with suffering and death.
This is the only One I want to follow.
He was here, down this road of suffering.
He came to us. He didn't require that we have to find a way to climb up the ladder to Him.
Up is down. Big is small. Last is first.
Christ turned the world upside down. Rightside up.
Make me less so He is more.
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