The Problem Inside the Solution

I was reading in Richard Rohr's wonderful book "Falling Upward"

This passage caught my attention

"The genius of the Gospel was that it included the problem inside the solution

The falling became standing

The stumbling became the finding

The dying because the rising.

The raft became the shore."

The paradox of faith is always centered around what God can

around that "great reversal' most clearly seen in the cross

where defeat became victory

and death became life

The are times when life seems defined by words like 

falling

stumbling

dying

failing

sinning

And yet the promise of God is this

that with Christ those were are not the totality

of experience

There is always

 standing

finding

living

succeeding 

grace!

There is always hope

and the grace of God

which goes beyond all understanding