We are not human beings trying to become spiritual; we are already spiritual beings,
and we are just trying and needing to become human for one another.
– Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
The greatest proof of God is reality, and the Christian word for full reality is Incarnation. Reality became incarnate and took personal form two thousand years ago. The eternal pre-existent Christ became a human body in space and time and was named Jesus.
We can and need to trust and allow this same divine process of human transformation in our self! God does not meet us in doctrines, spiritual methods, and strong moralism as much as God meets us in reality. This is our true “daily bread” the Word must become “flesh” because words are not enough to take us to truth, only experience can.
God comes in Jesus to share in and experience our human reality and to give us the courage to trust the same pattern in ourselves, in others, and in history. This is the key to remaining fully alive.
John 10:10 “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”
