What’s Wrong and What Happened were allowed in the throne room of God. They were, in fact, ushered in with singing. History and Affliction, in this way, were overcome but not removed. Neither repressed nor corrected. History and Affliction were, rather, consecrated. They were still somehow there. Held there by the scars kept in heaven, but they were made something else. They were made holy. Again, not because they had got better or worse, but because they had now been mentioned forever in Christ’s own body. Those horrors are made holy because of the body that made them holy. He bore them and
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