At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, and aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.