00435 – God Laughs & Weeps with Us
Tupper, Frank

The story of Jesus enables me to envision God as One who genuinely cares for each and all of us.

In Jesus, God confronts the Darkness face to face, Incarnate, for our sake. Jesus is Light to the gentle face of God.

The story of Jesus says that God laughs with us in our joys and weeps with us in our sorrows.

God strengthens us in the helplessness of our hoping, God stands with us in the uncertainty of our believing, and God waits for us in our yearning to be loved.

Ultimately the lone companionship of Jesus in the suffering of his passion made my painful journey a sometime story of faith.

from A Scandalous Providence

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