A gift, that costs us not less than everything

In the midst of the anxieties and obsessions that highlight the time in which we live, we might come to discover that relationship which makes us whole, that relationship with the unconditional presence and witness, forgiveness and affirmation that belong to God.

We discover all this, in short, in relation to the God of the Gospels, the God of Jesus, the God Jesus is.

The gospel of God, as the New Testament puts it before us, is good news about an eternal presence, an agency and intelligence wholly committed to who we are and who we shall become.

Jesus is wholly committed to our growth into what we are made to be, and to each person in our distinctiveness: patient, undemanding and massively demanding.

God offers us life, peace, presence to ourselves and to him; a gift that costs us not less than everything, yet in another sense costs nothing at all, because a gift is what it is.

Rowan Williams (slight paraphrase)

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Wholly committed to him, who is wholly committed to us.