Daily Reading for November 29
The Cry to God as ‘Father’ in the New Testament is not a calm acknowledgement of a universal truth about God’s abstract fatherhood. It is the Child’s cry out of a nightmare. It is the cry of outrage, fear, shrinking away, when faced with the horror of the ‘world’—yet not simply or exclusively protest, but trust as well. ‘Abba Father’ all things are possible to Thee.
By Rowan Williams, quoted in Celtic Daily Prayer: Prayers and Readings from the Northumbria Community, introduced by Richard J. Foster (HarperCollins, 2002).