Third Sunday of Easter. April 26, 2020
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Matthew 9:27-34: Healing
In this passage Jesus cures three people. This compassion brings him into confrontation with the authorities who question the source of his power to heal. Despite the accusation from the Pharisees that his energy comes from the dark world of the prince of demons Jesus persists, knowing that his actions rise from the goodness of God within. We also have the opportunity to enter into this goodness, into this God-ness, when we enter into Christ.
From ALL WILL BE WELL by Julian of Norwich: “Because of God’s great love for humanity, he does not make a distinction in love between Christ and the least creature. It is easy enough to believe that the blessed spirit of Christ is high in the glorious Godhead; but, as I have seen, where the blessed spirit of Christ dwells, there dwell in him the spirits of all who will be saved. So let us rejoice greatly that God dwells within us. Let us rejoice even further that we dwell within God. For our spirits are made to be God’s resting place, and our spirits’ rest is in God who is unmade. Great it is to know in our hearts that God, who is our Maker, rests in our spirits. But far greater is it to know in our hearts, our spirits, which are made, rest in God. Buy that substance, we are who we are! I beheld no difference between God and our substance. All was God, as it were. Yet, I knew that our substance is in God. In other words, God is God, and we are creatures in God”.
Teilhard de Chardin, a 20th century French paleontologist, priest and philosopher wrote frequently that we human beings persist in thinking that we are bodies walking around with a spirit when really we are spirits moving around in bodies. The physical world we see and move in is unreal, it is an illusion; it is the mysterious, intangible, spiritual world that is real and eternal. Perhaps this is why we find the story of Christ so baffling and sometimes unbelievable. We have things upside down.
Our spirit is made to be God’s resting place. It is for this reason that Jesus has the power to dispose of any illness or affliction that assails us. God is the creator of all.
Our spirit is made to be God’s resting place. It is for this reason that God tends to us and calls us constantly to goodness. We are made in God’s image.
Our spirit is made to be God’s resting place. It is for this reason that the Holy Spirit abides within to comfort our anxious minds. We are precious in the eyes of God.
Our spirit is made to be God’s resting place. God makes no distinction between Christ and the least soul. Imagine the good we might do, the sorrow we might heal, the transformation we might find, when we live with this mantra in mind.
Our spirit is made to be God’s resting place. So let us open our thoughts, our hearts, and our souls to Christ . . . and to the work he has in mind for us today. To whom might we restore sight? To whom might we give voice? When we find ourselves confronting the Pharisees of our day, let us remember our mantra so that we might step forward untroubled to pick up the work of God’s hands.
Kirvan, John. All Will Be Well: Julian of Norwich. 2008. Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 2005. Print.
Written on August 18, 2009 and posted today as a Favorite.
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