I was relieved to find out that God was just testing Abraham, but I wasn’t that relieved. The fact that I had been taken to the point of being relieved that God didn’t make a father murder his son limited the fullness of the relief I could experience. But I just told myself that they all probably had a huge LOL after the fact, did a freeze-frame group high five, and all lived (mostly) happily ever after—except, perhaps, for the PTSD Isaac had and the permanent dread associated with his having lost faith in his father as a caregiver. But other than
