rushing towards them on the same track, crashing into them and smashing their hopes to bits. But when hope put itself together again on Easter morning it became clear that this really was what God had had in mind all along. And that’s where Christianity began. That moment is the one we now look back to as the start of it all. Get it? God’s future came into the present in Jesus, and so has become part of our past. And if in one sense God’s future comes to meet us in the present, in another sense God’s