Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar states, “We need only to know who and what we really are to break into spontaneous praise and thanksgiving.” Scarred and screwed-up though we are, an appreciation of our greatness as Abba’s beloved child, vibrantly alive in Christ Jesus, overcomes the sleazy sense of our seedy self and elicits the grateful exclamation, “I thank you, Lord, for the wonder of myself” (Ps. 139:14).
