Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like ‘grrrr!” and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’
