This document summarizes a sermon given at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church on March 1, 2015. The sermon discusses the character of the Son in Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road" and compares him to the character of Isaac from the biblical story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac. It notes that both the Son and Isaac demonstrate vulnerability but that from this vulnerability life is renewed. It also quotes a passage from "The Road" about all things of grace having their birth in pain and ashes.