A Spacious Salvation
We shouldn’t put down people who show great euphoria and excitement after a born again or religious experience. They’re right. Suddenly the world makes sense for them. Suddenly it’s okay, despite the absurdity, the injustice, the pain. Life is now so spacious that we can even absorb the contradictions. God is so great, so bottomless, so empty, that God can absorb even the contraries, even the collision of opposites. Thus salvation often feels like a kind of universal amnesty, a total forgiveness of ourselves and all other things.
—Richard Rohr,
Everything Belongs
We should never dismiss the joy that bursts forth in someone newly awakened to grace. As Richard Rohr reminds us, that euphoria isn’t naïve—it’s a glimpse of just how vast God truly is. In Christ, life suddenly becomes spacious enough to hold both beauty and brokenness, sorrow and joy. The contradictions don’t disappear, but they no longer define us. Salvation opens a wide and welcoming space where even life’s collisions are somehow held together in mercy.
This is the miracle of grace: it doesn’t just pardon our past—it gives us the capacity to live with open hearts in a fractured world. God’s love is big enough to absorb it all—our doubts, our failures, our tensions—and still call us beloved. When we truly believe that, no wonder we overflow with joy. It’s not hype—it’s freedom. —DH
—David Hoskins, Founder & Care Guide, Sanctuary Clinics