"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 despair.
-resurrecting us from our big and little deaths,
showing us by Jesus example
that the only road to Easter morning
runs smack through Good Friday..."
Barbara Brown Taylor
