Our lives are shaped by who we are attentive to and how we welcome them into our lives. They allow us to discover what is important to us and what is that moves us to be present to them. This is truly the story of how Jesus attracts people to Himself. There is a struggle to discover a person who can speak authoritatively and with knowledge about what is important to our hearts. This is not just about seeing and believing that what someone says is true but listening and appropriation of what we are called to live with our lives. The meeting with Jesus does not happen by chance but rather meets us where we need to be met.
As we journey of with Jesus on the way of the Cross we start to realise how we tend to hold on to our lives too tightly rather than surrendering it to His loving relationship with the Father. I think part of our reluctance comes from the scandal of the Cross as we try to make sense of how that surrender seems to lead to death rather than to life, to despair rather than hope and sadness rather than joy. Yet the reality is that Jesus recognises that he cannot walk away from himself and what he truly seeks to live: that God loves Him as a beloved Son. It is that recognition that sees as the source of his whole life where he cannot divide himself in two between the human and the divine. In a similar way, we cannot walk away from Christ without dividing ourselves in two. We discover that when we are truly who what God wants us to be that all suffering is transformed by His loving action which draws us to the Cross. It helps us to see that our solidarity and our communion does not destroy us but free us to be present to His life.
Over this next week, I believe the main intention is not to take on a greater suffering or greater guilt but walking with Jesus even in our darkest night and knowing that His light enflames our own. He never walks away from us when we can walk with Him.
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