It tastes like the fresh fruit of Eden.
It sounds like “Father forgive”.

It feels like nail holes in the hands.
It feels like a weight lifted from around my neck.

“It is finished”, he said, and it was.

When you plant a tree, you need to put a stake in the ground to give it support.  Many people put the stake parallel to the tree trunk and tie the tree to the stake at a high level. The stake will keep the tree upright as it grows, and at some point in the future you can remove the stake.  But the tree won’t have endured much testing.  The stake will have prevented much strengthening in the trunk as it was growing. And this lack of strength is the cause of many mature trees uprooting.

Instead, the stake should be put at 45 degrees to the trunk, with the tree tied not far off the ground.  This method will mean the tree when it is growing will sway in the wind more, which will help the tree grow a stronger trunk. And a stronger trunk will mean the tree can endure more powerful storms.

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.”
Romans 5:1-5, NIV