Christ, my love, my sweetness, my truth, my life....
yet Christ is a mystery!
In friendship we know him-
but even in friendship, a strangeness remains.
true friendship wonderfully twines both familiarity and strangeness.
Christ, familiar but still there is mystery!
How do we enter into what is unknown (unfamiliar and unrecognised) of Christ?
it is in our human environment.
Christ reveals himself in our own mysteries, the unknown me,
the more we know him the more we know our own place and meaning in our environment
the more we meet him there the more we know him, the meaning of his actions...
This interaction makes us a sign for our time,
at times consoling, at times challenging.
Normally we defend and protect what is familiar,
and reject and oppose what is strange.
Failure of the Pharisees in the Gospel was that they closed themselves in the familiar.
"Unless your virtue go no deeper than that of the Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven."
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