It was a marvelous spiritual time for me. I've come to understand so much more about my God. I read this excerpt from Richard Rohr this morning and had to share it.
In Jesus we have an almost
extreme example of God taking sides. It starts with one who empties himself of
all divinity (see Philippians 2:6-7), comes as a homeless baby in a poor
family, then a refugee in a foreign country, then an invisible carpenter in his
own country which is colonized and occupied by an imperial power, ending as a
"criminal," accused and tortured by heads of both systems of power,
temple and empire, abandoned by most of his inner circle, subjected to the
death penalty by a most humiliating and bizarre public ritual, and finally
buried quickly in an unmarked grave. If God in any way planned this story line,
God surely intended the message to be subversive, clear, and unavoidable. Yet
we largely made Jesus into a churchy icon that any priestly or policing
establishment could gather around without even blushing.
How great is my God...... God I am humbled this day. In my life I've gone from humiliation to humility, a path that all, one day, will go.
Ultreya
