H,
What of all this joy we hear
of? Where is this abundance? Where is this peace? How do we get into wholeness
and holiness? How do we come alive like an unquenchable fire?
We seem to keep waiting for
this moment when all these things will be true. The way the world seems none of
it is true. We would need to build high walls and deaf ears to make it so. We would
need to construct a community of believers who only see the good in things, who
mistake fear for faith and who deny the worse side of the human experience. We would
have to believe that God is playing dice with our tiny speck of the universe
and some have it bad while others have it very, very good. We would have to
agree that the latter group have learnt the wisdom of grovelling. We would have
to get our praise on. The bulls are now the dance steps. The sweat is now the
blood. The priest is now the Bishop. We will have an experience and then all
will be well.
The problem is we have to
stay in this false house for all our lives. We cannot reach over this wall of
deception.
The whole of Christianity is
summarized in this: receive love and then give love. If we are going to build a
dam then we do not yet need this water that ends all thirst. We have to engage
with a world in pain or we are not the light or the salt or anything at all.

Remember, that God himself
came down and was put in chains by a tiny empire compared to the powerful
nature of the whole universe. It is like a feather killing a bear or a pebbling
bringing down Mount Everest. God humbled Him-self (and Her-self) to the pain of
the world. This is your home. In this, you will find all joy and love and
everything else thrown in.