One must push deeper and deeper into Jesus, and let him
illuminate deeper and deeper levels of reality within oneself… We are to feel
ourselves transparent so that this light of the Source can shine through us… We
simply open ourselves and let our whole awareness be of God’s life in and
through us to whatever work or expression of divine beauty and goodness is.
Beatrice
Bruteau – Radical Optimism
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Jesus was full of the Sacred
Stuffed with Love
We barely know how to talk about it
So we write creeds
Trying to put on paper that which cannot be contained
What we do know
Is that the love and power of God flowed through Jesus
And those who got near to him
Those who touched him
Were touched back
Like when woman on the road, barely touched his robe!
Jesus said, “Someone touched me. I know power has gone
out of me.”
Jesus was
Transparent
All that is Holy shone in him, and through him
Into the world, and into those precious souls
Who gathered around him
And as he was preparing to go home
He prayed that those who love him
Might be with him where he is
That is not just about our homecoming
That is about our living
We are called to be people
Filled with the Sacred
Full of love
Not so we can hang onto that love
But so that it can flow through us
Into a hurting world
Flow from the heart of Jesus
To our heart
To the hearts of those whose lives touch ours
Jesus was an expression of God’s beauty and goodness
Us too
We are to “be Jesus”
The ongoing incarnation
We are to have the outlook of Jesus
We are to see with his eyes
And feel with this heart
And we are to practice radical compassion
Fierce love
We are to share his
“care, his concern, his will to heal” (Bruteau)
Our walk with God is not about dominating or controlling
Protecting or coercing
It is about compassion
And healing
In Advent we prepare for Christ’s coming
But Christ has already come
And Christ has never stopped arriving
As he incarnates in our hearts
And shines through our lives
May we fall deeper and deeper into Christ
May we lean back
Into that reality that is the Source
Drawing closer and closer to Jesus
Until we are consumed
Until we not only lean into Christ
But lean into each other
All of us
Meeting at the heart of Jesus
The same kind of motley transformed crowd
That met in a stable
Under the light of a star
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