Jesus is the center. He gives us the ability to hope, to love meaningfully, to forgive others and ourselves, and to live with the reality of death. In his incarnation, the Son of God eats, tells stories, has friends, gets into it with the powers that be, prays, suffers, and dies for us, all of us, only to overthrow death. He offers us friendship. He’s the vine and we’re the branches. It’s a continuous, nourishing, living relationship. He fixes what seems unfixable—humanity. Faith, that faith which moves mountains and yet seems in the eyes of our world to be completely foolish, say the faith of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter; faith that seems to run counter to what is commonly thought of today as common sense, practicality, and the overwhelming reality of evil in the world—we must live by that faith alone. What a gift, that faith in love, because God is love! We are made to be vessels of faith. Only with the eyes of faith do we see the real world: its possibilities, its redemption.
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