EASTER MUSINGS #5
EASTER MUSINGS #5
Have you ever wondered to yourself, ‘Where is God hiding?” I have. The Gospel of John talks about God being Spirit — and it’s hard to ’see’ Spirit. It is probably one of our biggest challenges to faith — trusting something/someone we can’t see and touch. But is that so?
Whenever the material and the spiritual coincide, we have Christ. Jesus accepted that identity and walked it through in history. In much iconic art whenever the Christ was pictured, he was always portrayed as 
holding up two fingers. It’s saying, “I am both, I am two. I am fully a human being and I am fully divine at the same time. I hold both of them together, and that’s why I am the Christ. And the two do not cancel one another out in me. I am human and divine.” (Adapted from The Cosmic Christ by Richard Rohr).
The utterly unique revelation of Christianity is the Mystery of the Incarnation in Jesus the Christ. Most Christians are happy theists (believing in God) - but are not necessarily ‘Incarnationalists”. The Incarnation is saying that the material and the spiritual coexist - that the human and the divine coexist; that the physical and the the transcendant are one and the same for those who have eyes to see. So if you get the Mystery of the Incarnation — you really get it! Christmas is already Easter. Chew on that one for awhile!!
So God isn’t really hiding. We see God in the Christ — all around us — everywhere — at all times — if we open our hearts, minds and souls to really ’seeing’.
Continued blessings in this Eastertide. Cindy
