Am I nuts to think that sometimes God DOES jump over chaos? Not necessarily the norm...but on occasion...I'm a big fan of Senge and what he says makes sense, as does your cross reference with the dark night and valley of the shadow...and so what I'm seeing is a cross that perhaps resembles those I've seen (but can't name at the moment--I think it's Eastern!) where there are two horizontal arms (one and the top and one at the bottom)illustrating that our reconciliation can occur both above and within the chaos...that both are in some way normative experience, and yet we don't get to choose the path.