In the second lecture on Living by Trust, Fr. Joe delves into the story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac—a story that reveals how we must undergo human experience and risk to come to real trust in God, and that to live by trust in God does not remove pain and human struggle. Centuries later, another Only Son was offered up: the Isaac story is one of radical trust in God, but the parallel story of Christ on the Cross is God’s new covenant with us - through which we are shown that we can trust Him