Thursday, June 15,
2017
Sometimes we’re given special
little gifts of faith and insight that cause us to see things in ways that we
usually don’t see them. I was given such a gift yesterday.
I was in Boston at the bus-subway-train
transportation center (South Station) and there were a lot of people going
about their travels, hastening to and fro, checking schedules, grabbing a bite
to eat, carrying backpacks, suitcases, carts, strollers and toddlers with them.
All sorts of sizes and shapes and colors and nationalities, and I was happy to
see that because living at Saint Anselm College, I rarely get to see any signs
of diversity (although the situation is slowly improving).
I was very happy and content and
things looked beautiful to me. People looked beautiful to me. Each person in his/her
noble individuality, each with a personal history or story, none of which was
known to me, people in joy or even in distress because the work of traveling is
often a stressful task. And I kept noting to myself how beautiful everyone
looked, and then suddenly I realized that what I was looking at was a large
assortment of Christs all around me. God sent us Jesus so that in him earthly
matter and divine reality could be brought together as one, and through Christ
that one-ness becomes our reality as well—each of us, all the time, even though
we are so often unable to realize it.
It is not a question of good or
bad, of worthy or unworthy, of merit or deficiency or of anything else of that
sort. No. What I was experiencing was a totality which was perfect in and of
itself. There was no room for judgment or evaluation, for fault-finding or
assessments. None of that figured into the particularly graced vision that was
given to me as I made my way to my own destination. This was truly a gift from
God.
I wish some of those who are
prisoners of bigotry, or who extol divisiveness and hatred, could be given a
few minutes sharing the vision I was given.
May it be yours as well.
God bless you!
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