WHAT WONDER THE CHRIST

the wonder of a wholly different kind than the wonder of the incarnation is the wonder that the incarnation is disbelieved ... the wonder of the incarnation for us is that once we see it we want it as the most powerful and satisfying of all the reasons why ... the closest and most imtimate of all the true answers yes ... and it has the crucifixion ... it has suffering ... if it didn't we would all be a lie for each of us has suffered and knew it had a meaning though we could not tell what it meant to the last intonation ... and it has the resurrection ... without which the crucifixion has no meaning ... without which we who have each been crucified have no meaning ... not one of us but has been held back held down had power taken from us strength out pain and fear in and made to die sooner or later ... what a wonder then that we say it is not true ... how we say it however is clear ... to say it to kill the wonder of it we kill all wonder ... not the cat staring into the sky ... not the dog listening to the night wind ... nor the ape in the tree lokking across the savannah knows it more clearly than we ... all man is an animal only