‘Marvellous . . . Yet so Repulsive’: Either Way, ‘the Only Visible Sign of God in the World is the Cross’

Soren Kierkegaard once famously said, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” So often it’s only after we’ve lived through something that we can look back and articulate what was going on; then we see the choices we made more clearly and understand better the way things unfolded. We could hear this quote as an affirmation that it seems we’re often destined to go through life without a road map.