8.25.08 from "The Shack" p.100
On Jesus as fully God and fully human and part of the Trinity from the perspective of God the Father
"It would be like this bird, whose nature it is to fly, chooses only to walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly. Although by nature he is fully God, Jesus is fully human and lives as such. While never losing the innate ability to fly, he chooses moment-by-moment to remain grounded. ... Jesus is fully human. Although he is also fully God, he has never drawn upon his nature as God to do anything. He has only lived out of his relationship with me (the Father), living in the very same manner that I desire to be in relationship with every human being. He is just first to do it to the uttermost - the first to absolutely trust my life within him, the first to believe in my love and my goodness without regard for appearance or consequence. ... Humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image. If I were simply One God and One Person, then you would find yourself in this Creation without something wonderful, without something essential even. And I would be utterly other than I am...(without) Love and relationship. All love and relationship is possible for you only because it already exists in Me, within God myself. Love is not the limitation; love is the flying. I am love."
"It would be like this bird, whose nature it is to fly, chooses only to walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly. Although by nature he is fully God, Jesus is fully human and lives as such. While never losing the innate ability to fly, he chooses moment-by-moment to remain grounded. ... Jesus is fully human. Although he is also fully God, he has never drawn upon his nature as God to do anything. He has only lived out of his relationship with me (the Father), living in the very same manner that I desire to be in relationship with every human being. He is just first to do it to the uttermost - the first to absolutely trust my life within him, the first to believe in my love and my goodness without regard for appearance or consequence. ... Humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image. If I were simply One God and One Person, then you would find yourself in this Creation without something wonderful, without something essential even. And I would be utterly other than I am...(without) Love and relationship. All love and relationship is possible for you only because it already exists in Me, within God myself. Love is not the limitation; love is the flying. I am love."