3ww It cannot be so

It is a difficult thing to do. Represent someone, I mean.

It involves a deep understanding of the person being represented, and an intricate knowledge of who they are.

To represent someone in a negotiation is to know their wants very well indeed. To represent someone always is to know their whole being very well indeed.

So I wonder about Jesus. I wonder about what he represents. He represents God to the world. He represents God's love, God's justice, the rebirth of God's kingdom.

But Jesus also represents me. He represents me when God would be sorry to look at me. He pleads for me, dies for me and bleeds for me. Once he has finished representing me God smiles upon me once more.

It is typical of the human condition (if one can make such a generalisation) that we are combative about this. We question whether this can be, we wonder at a God who would forgive all, and then we discover others wondering at a God who does not punish enough. We fight grace and our sluggish minds think not of the wonder of it, but at the lack of reason behind it all. We say to ourselves,

"This is not logical. It cannot be so!"

 This would be correct in a world only of logic. But this world has other attributes too. There is beauty, elegance, art, music, love, laughter, good food, friendship, hope and humanity. My faith permits me to marvel at these things, to worry not about explanations but rather to enjoy the gossamer thread of this moment.

May I remember this each day over the coming festive period. May I have the patience with others and myself to enjoy each moment as it comes! And may you find it too.