God is the Name and the Nameless.
God is the utterly recognizable and the completely
baffling!
God is love flowing through me and love unknown.
God revealed the covenant name to Moses, but
Solomon also said that God dwells in thick darkness.
Jesus as Son of Man is the essential, true human.
Jesus as Son of God is the crucified and
triumphant.
Jesus as the ascended one is the cosmic Christ,
filling all things.
Jesus is the paradox who lays aside power and glory
to embrace poverty and denigration.
The Holy Spirit is the awareness who kindles within
me the fire of the Word.
The Holy
Spirit is courage for my cowardice, passion for my indifference.
The Holy
Spirit is the divine energy binding together all of creation.
The Holy
Spirit is the playful, joyous, and poetic God who comes to us, bringing
empowerment to live life as we were meant to.
And what
about the church, the body of Christ, the sisters and brothers of Jesus Christ?
There many
biblical images of the church. I might
add:
The church
is where my faith becomes real, where it takes on flesh and blood.
The church
is where I am held accountable, and where I am to hold others accountable.
The church
is always on the way, but not yet reaching the goal in this life.
The church
is composed of those, who as Paul says, for whom Christ has broken down the
dividing wall. We erect walls between
Jew and Gentile, male and female, young and old, various sexual and political
orientations, ethnic groups of all kind, and any number of other ways in which
we substitute human distinctions for God’s.
The church humbly sets aside our ways for God’s ways, as revealed
through the one who is given for the life of the world, Jesus Christ.
The Lord is risen
light forever
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