LEARNING TO SEE

You already know. The Spirit is with you, and the Spirit is in you.

Jesus seemed to caution his contemporaries to humility and patience before the subtle mystery of who He was: “You do not know where I came from and where I am going” (John 8:14). He seemed to know that this mystery of being both divine and human would take a very long time to absorb, understand, accept, or reconcile. It is the ultimate paradox, and every Christian and every human being struggles with it anew, both in themselves and in Him, and every day.

We could not hold the mystery together in Jesus, despite being assured that He is “the one single New Man” (Ephesians 2:15), the Archetypal Person who reconciles and recapitulates everything inside Himself (Colossians 1:15-20). The sad result is that we could not then see, honor, and reconcile the mystery inside of ourselves or in one another either! We could not let Jesus “save” us, you might say. It is the third eye that allows us to say yes to the infinite mystery of Jesus and the infinite mystery that we are to ourselves. They are finally the same mystery.