the seeker who embraces positive theology finds. . . that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the beautiful house and car, if only you believe that you can. But. . . if you don't have all that you want, if you feel sick, discouraged, or defeated, you have only yourself to blame. Positive theology ratifies and completes a world without beauty, transcendence, or mercy.
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.