Gethsemane experience

I just finished yesterday a book called Jesus the Fool, The Mission of the Unconventional Christ, by Michael Frost.  While I reacted negatively not only to the title but to the constant reference to Jesus as a fool (meaning, unique and whimsical by intention, not lack of intelligence), Frost had several very good parable and incident interpretations.  I want to quote one from the last chapter, "Jesus the Fool Who Won't Give Up."
    "If Jesus was always completely certain of the otucome of his life - if he knew everything that was to happen before it happened and if he had no doubt about his final vindication - then where is there room for faith?  How can we talk about the faith of Jesus if he was always aware of the events of every next moment?  If he was completely and thoroughly sure, without the shadow of any doubt, that after his trial, humiliation, torture, and death, he would be resurrected to the right hand of God and all power both in heaven and on earth was to be given to him, there would be no need for him to exercise faith.  And Gethsemane would not make sense.  The events in that garden can only be sensible if there was an element of risk involved.  Faith is risk.  And at Gethsemane, Jesus showed he was faced with a terrible risk - the offering of his own life.
   The fact that he was prepared to, in spite of his fears, go thourgh with his commitment to be sacrificed for our inadequacy makes the cross the supreme symbol of fith.  Not only do we place our faith in it, but we celebrate Jesus' faith that drove him to it. ... His dogged, relentless loyalty was shaken in that small garden, but he didn't fall."
   It's a good reminder for this week, especially.