Weekly Pause & Ponder

The reality we name as “God” mightier and more vast than 400 billion galaxies, permeates my existence as a human person. Certainly God is infinite and unknowable, but we look into our own hearts and lives, and there is this same God bursting to life in us. Why do we keep looking elsewhere to find God? Why do we stay locked into a spirituality that looks for God in the heavens in preference to a spirituality that focuses on the God within and among us, urging and prompting us to claim our sacred identity—and to live it? Here is the arena of conversion and the heart of Jesus’ message to all of us who have ears to hear.

Tomorrow’s Catholic: Understand God and Jesus in a New Millennium
By Michael Morwood, MSC, p. 99.