The Christ goes for broke — he takes care of business; he teaches and peers into the hearts of his “enemies” and shows them what faith can do.
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The word is so amazing when we hear God speak an ‘if’ to us.
How many “ifs” will open possibilities and doors and chances to grow, live, love, fin, discover, be transformed, and not harden, but find the voice of God giving and living within us and through us.
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God ‘walks in our shoes’ to understand us up close
He had to share everything — our blood, our flesh, our death. The redeeming of it all was again how he shared it, how he embraced it, how he renewed it.
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Jesus — the classic scapegoat — ‘carried the sins of all’
As they dumped everything upon him through their rejection, jealousy, condemnation, and the passion and death on the cross — as they scapegoated the Holy One — he showed how to be the scapegoat of love.
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Our faith is so present; it is the now, where we are at
What if someone were to write the story of our lives, beginning with right now — “in medias res”?
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When the will of God is realized, we will see harmony, synchronicity, wholeness
In any case, the harmony, synchronicity and wholeness of that will is completely satisfying to us when we live that will here on earth, in our lives, and in the present.
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In the Christ there is life
The Christ, the Holy One of God, gives life and brings life and restores life always, again and again — with precision, wholeness, gladness and joy.
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The Epiphany is that we begin to look like, sound like, live like the God of love
The Epiphany — or manifestation of God dwelling within us — is that we, somehow, begin to look like or sound like or live like the God of love.
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Trust flows out of that loving relationship that is God
When we live in God, love, Spirit, knowledge, belief, and communion, we need not and do not fear.
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Even before the cross, Jesus demonstrated the same love to those he encountered
Are we just to observe the hunger of others (physical, spiritual, emotional, societal), or are we being asked, called, told to feed others?
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