His words always make me think deep thoughts, which I like very much.
Maybe this will do the same for you?
Jon Sullivan - Is the Universe Friendly?
And I know, too, that most people do not live by their arguments,
but by their commitments.
In the end, the real reason I believe
that the universe is friendly and makes sense
is that I can't get away from Jesus.
He speaks to me as a person.
I don't know him as well as I wish I did,
and the longer I live, the less I know about him,
because the more mysterious he becomes.
But what I know is this:
if the universe were meaningless and hostile,
the crucifixion would have been the end of him.
The cross would have been the supreme example of the absurd;
the man who gave himself for the good of humanity was done to death
by those/ for whom/ he gave himself.
But the crucifixion wasn't the end of him.
He's still around, still disturbing, still illuminating,
not in great institutions perhaps, but in individuals,
sending people out to do extraordinary things,
people whose minds have been lit by his greater mind
and whose spirit has been fortified
by his absolutely uncompromising spirit.
And the cross on which he died
has made all other suffering and evil capable of meaning,
capable, that is of being caught up into the tapestry of life
and woven into the pattern in such a way
as to make the pattern intelligible.
