In fact, from the beginning God has had to trust us as much as he asks us to trust him. In creating us he risks everything—short of his trinitarian relational connection—something we often have great difficulty imagining. In the story we tell as followers of Jesus, then, from its opening pages we find vulnerability—first without shame and then in the face of it—to be an essential aspect of God’s posture toward us and nothing short of a fundamental necessity for the healing of shame and the promotion of human flourishing.
