Eric Bailey's

"My moment of rebellion over, I know better and remember Peter's words: 'My goal is only that each day I should become closer to the God I understand.' The God I understand? Not the willful old man in the sky I've resented all my life. Truth. Essence. The inner voice I keep running away from. That's the God I've been resisting. If, Jonah-like, I'd rather hide in the stinking belly of a whale than face the truth I know so well, it's not because of intelligence but because of the refusal to surrender. To surrender, you have to give something up. I've been unwilling to do they. And YHWH said to Moshe: I see this people - and here, it is a stiff-necked people."