“Lord, I believe, but help thou my unbelief, because I
still do not want to die. I believe Jesus has power to raise the dead, only I
do not want him practicing on me. I want a God who will cut my losses and
cushion my failures, a God who will grant me a life free from pain. I want a
God who will rescue me from death, who will delete it from the human experience
and find another way to operate.
What I, what all of us, have instead is a God who
resurrects us from the dead, putting an end to it by working through it instead
of around it--creating life in the midst of grief, creating love in the midst
of loss, creating faith in the midst of despair--resurrecting us from our big
and little deaths, showing us by his own example that the only road to Easter
morning runs smack through Good Friday.”
Barbara Brown Taylor
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