" The Father was taking me on the same downward journey he took his Son. Paul invited the Philippian church to join Jesus, “who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:6-7). The downward journey is a gospel story. "

― Paul E. Miller , A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World