Christ's Unanswered Prayer

"I finally knew, I told him, why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted.  He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh.  He was one of us.  Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying.  That He prayed that prayer at all  showed how human He was.  The He knew it cold not be granted showed His divinity; that He prayed it anyhow showed His mortality, His mortal love of life that His death made immortal."  Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow