Quote for Reflection (Sunday, April 6, 2025)

“The centerpiece of this growth in faith is the ever-constant cycle of death and resurrection. While a confrontation with physical death may be part of our story, there is the ongoing challenge of our deep desires and their limitless reach toward truth, beauty, and love combined with our very partial success in satisfying such desires. God comes to us, over and over again, with an experienced fulfillment of these desires even and especially when we ourselves can’t reach up to them. Our sins, our wounds, our social realities, and our mere creatureliness curtail our flourishing. Yet God provides such flourishing in ever surprising ways and through various and serendipitous means. Gradually we move from contract thinking – God will give us what we want if we do things right – to covenant love – an adventure of trust in relationship to the divine.”

Transformed Lives by Cynthia Crysdale