By ILLIA DELIO [US Catholic] – The approach to Christ I am describing has been called panentheism: God is in all things, and all things are in God, but God is more than all things. God is greater than the sum of everything because God is incomprehensible. You can’t conflate the uncreated and the created…
We’ve become too analytical. Our approach is about law: Do good, avoid evil. But the mystic is one who, through prayer, enters into the mystery of God as love. Christian life is first of all a mystery, the mystery that the incredible, incomprehensible love of God is the source of all that we are.
The mystical way is one of vision. The mystic moves from the head to the heart to see the world in its true reality. The mystic doesn’t do what is right out of duty, but because she or he sees the presence of God in the poor, in the sick, in those who are anxious, in the marginalized.
Incarnation is also about seeing the hiddenness of God. Francis of Assisi was very focused on the humility of God, who is hidden in everyday, ordinary reality. What do you see when you see another person? When you see a rabbit? A tree? A sand dune? Do you see only sand? Or do you see something more?
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