Here, through the cross, we have come home, home to the truth about ourselves, home to the truth about what God has done about what we have done. And now we know, or begin to know, why this awful, awe-filled Friday is called good. - Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Death on a Friday Afternoon
This conclusion seems oddly distant after a couple days here with way more beach time than prayer time. I can feel Lent slipping away from me.
In a way, the result has been for me to see this truth from the perspective of those who do not agree with it, who have not arrived at this conclusion fresh from the reflection that leads to it. So many of us are oblivious to the vast void in our lives that results from not knowing the truth about ourselves that leads leads to the greater truth about God, and who we are in him.
No comments:
Post a Comment