It is when we are up against death, when we find ourselves in despair, that the God of cross is near to us. It is through suffering and despair that God is made known to us, for God is found on the cross.

Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried.

With the 737, even though they've upgraded the length, the avionics, and the wings, the cross-section of the plane remains the same as it was forty years ago.

With the 737, even though they've upgraded the length, the avionics, and the wings, the cross-section of the plane remains the same as it was 40 years ago.

Our cross is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must die to self in order to be raised by God into wholeness of life in the image of Christ right there at that point.

So the process of being conformed to the image of Christ takes place at the points of our unlikeness to Christ, and the first step is confrontation.

These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.