Paradox

I'm finishing up The Meaning in the Waiting.  One phrase caught my attention this morning:

Advent beckons us into the nonsensical paradox of God in which deep truths can be found.

Sense found in nonsense.  Truth found in paradox. 

To gain, we must lose.  In dying, we will live.  The first will be last.  To live, we must die. 

What deep truth can be found in the paradoxes of our faith? 

The first, most simplistic answer I have is that what we are taught is of value as members of society is wrong.  What we hope to gain -- money, wealth, success, security -- isn't worth gaining.  What is of value, isn't valued.  In order to trying live, we must die to what we think we hold dear, and at dying, we will find life -- here, on earth, and then later.

Paradoxes.