Humiliating, Necessary, Beautiful Grace

After Jonah is thrown into the sea at his own request, everything changes. After getting what he thought he wanted, Jonah ends up in a place of desperation. He calls out to God for the first time in the book and is met with radical, humiliating, dignifying grace in the form of the great fish. It is his experience of both his need for grace and of God's willingness to give that grace that will set him on a new trajectory, and so it is with us, too.