25/12/24

As is usual for me on the Great Feasts of the Lord. I am speechless and overawed by the knowledge that I cannot put adequately into words.

John has lived long after the deaths of the other eleven men who knew Jesus as a friend. He was also their Rabbi and by his miracles he also had revealed that he was something much more than an interpreter of the scrolls.

John has also been caring for Mary since the time Jesus returned to the eternity that is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. They must have talked together but John's Gospel contains no narrative of the Nativity even though it is through Mary that God becomes man.

When John finalized his Gospel he had had half a century in which to work out and understand what it was that he and Mary had been part of.

These mysterious opening words of the Gospel which concluded the liturgy I heard as a child are still as pregnant with TRUTH as they were then.

We are the focus of God's being. He Loves us into being as a miniscule part of the Universe and yet it is only from us that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT wants the completely free return of love. The "being" of all other forms of life is "good" but it is encoded. We, however, can choose how we respond to God's Love.

God's Love for us is the "babe in the manger", the revealer of reality throughout his life in Palestine and the forgiveness won in the bitter pain of Calvary.

Our Love for him can be expressed by words but we have to  remember that doing the will of "My Father" is far, far greater than obeisance and "Lord, Lord".

I should thank God for my speechlessness for it is in those moments of awe that I come closest to doing the will of "Our Father".