"The Harder Way"

"The Harder Way"

We’re not freed from our humanity; we’re freed in our humanity. We’re not freed from the flesh, which is what so many of us want; we’re freed in the flesh. It’s a matter of integration, of synthesis. That’s how grace works: in the flesh, in our humanity. Don’t try to climb over it; don’t try to deny it and tunnel underneath it; don’t try to run around it. Go through it. True, it’s the harder way. Both/and is for some reason much more demanding than either/or. It is an easy litmus test to distinguish the beginners from the more mature Christians.

from The Price of Peoplehood