What was the greatest miracle that Jesus performed during His visit to us here in the Valley of Tears? It is not what you think. It is our failure to piss him off. It is our failure to earn a place on his shit list. We tortured and killed him. He forgave us. Forgiveness is the pleasant surprise that emerged from the violent collision between Jesus and the evil that we did to him on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. Surprise! Our God is not like us. Forgiveness for the evil that we did to him is the window through which we catch a glimpse of God from here on earth. It is the foundation of our understanding of God. It is the good news of great joy. It is the epicenter of Christianity. It is the source from which everything Christian is derived. It is the gold standard by which the genuine is distinguished from the spurious - by which the fair is distinguished from the foul. To know forgiveness is to know God. Forgiveness for the evil that we did to him is the high fidelity representation of the reality of God that Jesus released into the Valley of Tears to raise us from the level of the most miserable and hideous of loveless beasts scurrying, in poverty, around the ruins of Eden to the level of prosperity with our loving God and his Holy Family in paradise. The knowledge initiates the process of our deification. The God who fashioned us out of the dust with his hands put himself into the hands of the dust to leaven the dust with the yeast of divinity. The yeast of divinity is forgiveness.
