Going Beyond Ourselves
Last time I suggested that our ultimate destiny is to evolve
beyond our limitations, failures and weaknesses because we are made in God’s
image. In other words, we go beyond what it is we understand to be human.
Well, then, just this morning, I read something Pope Francis
said that gets to the heart of what I’ve been trying to say:
“Thanks solely to this encounter—or
renewed encounter—with God’s love, . . . we become fully human when we become
more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves in order to attain
the fullest truth of our being.” (“The
joy of the Gospel,” paragraph 8)
United with God’s love, we become more than ourselves.
Perhaps you’ve had a small taste of this reality even for the briefest of
moments.
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