By the modern age, Jesus became a highly contrived problem-solver for our own guilt and fear (a problem that was inevitable if God was not indwelling) instead of the Archetypal Blueprint for what God has been doing all the time and everywhere: becoming incarnate in creation. (Sunday) The Christ Mystery is the template for all creation, and even more precisely the crucified Christ, who reveals the necessary cycle of loss and renewal that keeps all things moving toward ever further life. (Monday) The Formless One forever takes on form as "Adam" (and, in Jesus, "the new Adam"), and then takes us back to the Formless One once again as each form painfully surrenders the small self that it has been for a while. (Tuesday) In Jesus, God took human form, human face, human eyes, and human endearment; God is finally someone we could fall in love with. (Wednesday) If God became flesh and entered this world in Jesus, then the hiding place of God is this world, in the material, in the animals, in the elements, in the physical. These are the hiding places--and the revelation places--of God! (Thursday) The Franciscan starting point is not sin or a problem; our starting point is Divine Incarnation itself. So our ending point is inevitable and predictable: resurrection. (Friday)
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