God, and Never Letting Go

Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

It’s easy to turn our backs on God—in the short term. Life has a way of buffeting us about, of illness and disasters and disappointments happening to us or those we love for no discernible earthly reason.

But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.” (Genesis 32:26, NRSVCE)

 Things go all right for a while when we turn away. Oh,...