What she discovered was that God was not at all like the god of her imagination. The biggest surprise was God’s vulnerability. It was this that made her most ready to receive his love. She had expected a God of power. What she found in the Christ of the Gospels was a God of weakness. It was the love of this weak and vulnerable God that was most transforming for her. For if God could dare to take risks in entering human life in vulnerability, perhaps she could take the risk he invited in meeting him in her weakness. She was finally ready to receive perfect love in an undefended state.
