He comes to us in the brokenness...

He comes to us in the brokenness of our health,

in the shipwreck of our family lives,

in the loss of all possible peace of mind,

even in the very thick of our sins.

He saves us in our disasters, not from them.

He emphatically does not promise to meet

only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery:

He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing.

-Robert Farrar Capon