I added this:

We ARE the alternative. It just doesn’t seem that way most of the time. Are we supposed to be satisfied with that? Is that the “norm” that God expects? Is what God expects a “realistic” thing? Probably not. But who’s “realistic” are we talking here? In what reality? (There’s only one that is REALITY, the others are claims; metanarratives which we do well to recognize; to “Name the Powers” (with a nod to Walter Wink’s book)
—Me, adding to a post from Sunday ( this post)