I have decided not to fall in love with God's fingertips, but with his
heart, and his heart only. I have decided to live my life from the heart
of
Jesus. I have decided to make my home in the center of the world, in the
heart of God himself. I have discovered this heart of God in Jesus Christ,
the son of Mary.
How do we come to Jesus? To experience the heart of God we need Jesus; to
experience Jesus, we need to experience that moment in which he sacrificed
his heart. And that was the moment when he sealed the surrender of his
life
with the last drop of his blood, when his eyes dimmed and his heart broke
–
the hour when he also comforted a criminal. It was Golgotha: that time and
place in which we enter into pure, unclouded fellowship with God’s
eternity, God’s heart, God’s love. Golgotha is the window through which we
can look from this darkened earth into the radiance of God’s heart.
"If Christ were born a thousand times in Bethlehem but not in you, you
would still be lost eternally." That is what the mystery of religion
witnesses to: the uniting of the individual soul with Jesus Christ; the
uniting of the individual spirit with the universal Spirit at one moment
in
time.
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