A reader writes:
"On days like this, in the midst of still unfinished resolutions on the nature of a seemingly distant God, I am comforted by your post about the Cross. Thank you for that.
Here’s a wonderful quote by George Steiner from Philip Yancey’s book, "Reaching For The Invisible God":
‘We know of that Good Friday which Christianity holds to have been that of the Cross. But the non-Christian, the atheist, knows of it as well. This is to say that he knows of the injustice, of the interminable suffering, of the waste, of the brute enigma of ending, which so largely make up not only the historical dimension of the human condition, but the everyday fabric of our personal lives. We know, ineluctably, of the pain, of the failure of love, of the solitude which are our history and private fate.
We know also about Sunday. To the Christian, that day signifies an intimation, both assured and precarious, both evident and beyond comprehension, of resurrection, of a justice and a love that conquered death … The lineaments of that Sunday carry the name of hope (there is no word less deconstructible).
But ours is the long day’s journey of the Saturday."
The Dish 