We celebrate our blessings with Jesus, but sometimes we forget to celebrate His presence, His light, shining when all else is dark. Then it’s not “There but for the grace of God go I” but “Here, with the grace of God, I go.”
The Biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. You cannot get there, you can only be there, but the foundational Being-in-God, for some reason, is too hard to believe, and too good to be true for most people. Only the humble will usually believe it and receive it, because it affirms more about God than it does about us. Proud people are not attracted to such explanations.
Here is what St. Bonaventure tells us about God: “By God’s power, presence, and essence, God is the One whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. God exists uncircumscribed in everything.” In other words, it’s all sacred. You can find God everywhere. You don’t have to go to monasteries. As Francis of Assisi said, “The whole world is our cloister.”
Bonaventure goes on to say, “God is, therefore, all inclusive. God is the essence of everything. God is most perfect and…
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