Suffering’s downward force is met and more than matched by God. The more we learn to see this and participate with it, with God, the more we can transform ourselves and the world around us.

The voice of God within you is the force urging you to keep looking, to doubt the deprivation talk, and to take your place with God in the coming of the Kingdom.

There are all kinds of ways to chicken out of seeing the ball laying squarely at our feet. And, oh, God wants us to pick it up!

It is a profoundly humbling truth. God and me. God and you. God and us. It is rarely just God.

It’s time we voice our dissatisfaction with the God of the public square.