The Cry of Father

I read this every month in Daily Office.

The quote is from Rowan Wilimams:

The Cry to God as ‘Father’
in the New Testament
is not a calm acknowledgemment
of a universal truth about
God’s abstract fatherhood.
It is the child’s cry
out of a nightmare.

It is the cry of outrage,
fear, shrinking away,
when faced with the horror
of the ‘world’
– yet not simple or exclusively
protest, but trust as well.

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