Salvation history, scripture, and human experience speak to our souls, that we continually seek friendship, truth, justice, happiness, and love. Yet at the same time, we experience suffering, rejection, and abandonment, all a part of life on this earth, while moving towards death due to the effects of sin. Our hope is to embrace this suffering with a realistic seriousness, and not try to shortcut it through power, prestige, fame, fortune, or a withdrawal from that self-sacrificing love. It's this divine love that saves. Jesus is it; Saint Charles Lawanga followed him in rejecting the shortcuts to fame and power, but in his weakness rejected the king's requests, and was burnt alive while crying out, "It's as if you were pouring water on me. Please repent and become a Christian like me."