Faith and the Law of "getting it"

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"Christianity does not provide a God's Eye View of our circumstances. Christianity does not demand that you unpack all your intricate pathologies. In terms of faith, Christianity stands in solace with the sufferer beyond the ring of understanding and control. It is a simultaneous widening and tightening of the borders of belonging. The circle has tightened upon one man, Jesus, to whom no one else belongs. And simultaneously, absurdly, the circle is inverted upon him, the outsider brought into the power of his death. It is in this way that the Christian understands the cost of his or her life -- a deepening sense of wonder and possibility in the wilderness of not 'getting it.'"

-Ethan Richardson in The Mockingbird