God is not the patch of meaning on the wound…God is the wound we put our patch of meaning upon.
Peter Rollins
Okay, after the fact I realize that this quote invites misinterpretation. Let me explain.
What’s the wound? Our disillusionment with the world, its suffering, and our place in it.
And then what is God? Is He a band-aid we invent to make our boo-boo feel better? Is He some patch we apply to keep our disillusionment and discontent from getting worse?
No! God is the ultimate reality, and whatever problems we have with the world we also have with Him. Whatever our understanding of God and the world, it had better be able to explain why we ended up wounded, and be more than just a covering to disguise that something’s gone wrong.