+ Welcome to “Alice in Wonderland” where everything is a “vision” and is “not” what you think it is and “means something” but not “something else.”
Sorry, but I had to jar your senses and your perceptions because once we enter the world of Daniel and Revelation, just know that almost everything is symbolic and means something other than what it says it is — especially the monsters and creatures of the deep.
So, if you do want to go there, then you must really go there.
Reading these two books requires some study and confusion. Enjoy.
+ What we can say is that these visions and this representation of the holy and the eternal are a way of seeing — seeing more than meets the eye and, therefore, coming to see and know more.
Jesus also is presented as one who sees.
When Jesus looks, he sees the interior of the heart and soul. When Jesus looks, he sees what and who a person is, and what and who that person can become. When Jesus looks and sees, he also invites us to look and see.
Through the eyes, words and heart of Jesus, he promises we will see greater things. He says we will see the heavens opened.
And maybe a little like “Alice in Wonderland,” we too see things like Jesus — inside out, upside down, truer than true, redeeming and enlivening, grace-filled and promise filled.
Father Perry D. Leiker is the 13th pastor of St. Bernard Catholic Church. Reach him at (323) 255-6142. Email Father Perry at pleiker@stbernard-church.com. Follow Father Perry on Twitter: @MrDeano76.
